At least 30 lawsuits potentially worth billions of dollars have been filed in four states disputing responsibility for the massive electricity bills many Texans were hit with amid the freezing weather in February that caused power outages and a natural gas shortage, the Wall Street Journal reports . According to the report, some of the lawsuits accuse natural gas suppliers of price-gouging and overcharging utilities for the gas they supplied. One group of suits, filed by San Antonio-based utility CPS Energy, alleges that gas suppliers were “profiteering from scarcity during a declared disaster,” with some hiking their prices by a staggering 15,000 percent. “What we believe is that this was a huge transfer of wealth at one of Texas’ worst points in our history,” the chief executive of CPS Energy, Paula Gold-Williams, told the WSJ in an interview. Amid a natural disaster, “the result can’t be that prices become […]