When my friend Rebecca in Highland Park, NJ, opened her PSE&G gas and electric bill last month, she almost fell out of her seat: It had tripled.

It’s now costing her more than $1,000 a month to keep her modest home running.

“It’s been creeping up for months, in spite of the fact that nothing about our house has changed,” she told me. “In years past, it was averaging about $300 a month.”

“I don’t know how we’re expected to absorb these new bills,” she posted on Facebook.

Her neighbor Felix Urman wondered the same as he ticked off his household costs for me.

“Property taxes are up 6.3%,” he said — on top of what had already been the nation’s highest.

“Car insurance up 15%. Home insurance up 17%. Health insurance up 19%.

“I don’t know how non-dermatologists are living in New Jersey,” h

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