Clark Howard's Georgia Natural Gas Guide: Where It Went, and the Archived Copy
If you searched for Clark Howard’s Georgia Natural Gas Guide, you’re not imagining it: it used to be at clark.com/homes-real-estate/ga-natural-gas-guide, and it isn’t anymore. That address now shows Clark.com’s “page not found” message. We checked on November 11, 2026.
You can still read it. The Internet Archive saved copies over the years:
- The last archived copy (August 22, 2025), with the guide’s final update, based on the PSC’s October 2022 chart.
- The earliest archived copy (April 4, 2017), from when it was still a monthly update.
- Every snapshot, if you want to see how it changed.
Just remember that the rates in those copies are years old. They’re history, not prices you can sign up for today.
Open Natural Gas is not affiliated with Clark Howard, Clark.com or Team Clark. We’re writing about the guide because people still look for it.
Why so many Georgians used it
Georgia has run an unusual natural gas market since deregulation in the late 1990s. Atlanta Gas Light owns the pipes, but you buy your gas from one of a dozen or so marketers, and each one files its rates with the Georgia Public Service Commission every month. The prices are public, but they’re published as wide PDF charts that most people never open.
Clark Howard, the Atlanta consumer and money expert, made that chart readable. For years the guide did a simple, useful thing:
- It started from the PSC’s own numbers, not from marketing pages, and said so. The final version reads: “All numbers are direct from the GA PSC’s October 2022 pricing chart.”
- It named the low-cost leaders for fixed-rate plans, usually the two marketers at the top of the chart that month.
- It quoted what a year would actually cost, using the PSC’s estimate for a typical household, not just the rate per therm. The 2019 version pointed out that once the “junk fees” were added, two plans with the same advertised rate came out at different totals.
- It added Clark’s take on whether to lock in now or wait.
His advice stayed consistent: he liked fixed-rate plans for homeowners, because the price per therm can’t jump on you in a cold winter. In the October 2022 update he put it this way: “Get a fixed price for 12 months at the lowest break (termination) fee. That’s the sweet spot. That way you can switch if rates go back down.”
That’s still sound. A short fixed term with a low early termination fee keeps your price steady without locking you in. Our guide to plan types explains the trade-off between fixed and variable rates in more detail.
What happened to it
Going by the Wayback Machine’s copies, the guide slowed down long before it disappeared:
| Archived | What the page said |
|---|---|
| April 2017 | “Our monthly update,” with that month’s PSC numbers |
| August 2019 | Still called monthly, but quoting the November 2018 chart |
| March 2021, and again June 2022 | Quoting the January 2020 chart |
| October 2022 | Rewritten as “our quarterly update,” with the October 2022 chart |
| August 2025 | The same October 2022 numbers, nearly three years later |
| November 2026 | Page not found |
We don’t know exactly when or why Clark.com removed it. The archive just shows the page went quiet after October 2022 and was gone by the time we checked.
Where to compare Georgia natural gas rates now
The guide’s method still works: start from the PSC filing, compare the full yearly cost, and favor a fixed plan with a low termination fee. Two places do that with current numbers:
- The Georgia PSC’s Marketers Pricing Index. The official monthly charts. Complete and free, but hard to read on a phone. Our explainer walks through it.
- Open Natural Gas. We take every marketer’s PSC filing each month and put it in sortable tables with what a year actually costs, including the service charge and the Atlanta Gas Light base charge. No marketer pays to be listed or ranked, and our methodology shows how the numbers are built.
If you want the shortest path to what Clark’s guide used to give you:
- Current 12-month fixed rates, ranked by estimated annual cost, on our homepage.
- Other fixed terms: 6- to 36-month plans, ranked the same way.
- Fixed vs. variable, this month, from the latest filing.
- How to switch your gas marketer: a phone call or a web form. Your gas keeps flowing through the same pipes and meter.
Before you sign, check the early termination fee and the monthly customer service charge, not just the rate. That’s the part of Clark’s advice that never went out of date.
Common questions
- Where is Clark Howard's Georgia Natural Gas Guide?
- Clark.com removed it. The old address, clark.com/homes-real-estate/ga-natural-gas-guide/, now shows a "page not found" message (we checked on November 11, 2026). The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine still has copies, the latest from August 22, 2025.
- How current was the guide before it came down?
- Its last update used the Georgia PSC's October 2022 pricing chart. The page stayed online without new numbers until at least August 2025, so its rates were about three years old by then.
- What was Clark Howard's advice on Georgia natural gas?
- Mostly fixed rates. His October 2022 advice in the guide was to get a fixed price for 12 months at the lowest termination fee, so you can switch if rates go back down.
- Where can I compare Georgia natural gas rates now?
- The Georgia PSC publishes every marketer's filed rates each month. Open Natural Gas puts the same filings into sortable tables with the full yearly cost, and no marketer pays to be listed.