Over the last three or four years, this industry has suffered another round of increased utility cost including water, natural gas and electricity. Our lifeblood is water, natural gas and the electricity the utilities needed to heat, pump and circulate that lifeblood through the laundry. 
 
In recent months, we’ve seen a decline in gas prices, and it may be prudent to take the savings we realize from these price declines and invest the difference back into our facilities, so we are better prepared to weather the next round of increases, which will certainly happen again. Economists predict ...