BOSTON — The hypocrisy is blazing hotter than a gas flame. Gov. Maura Healey is screaming “OUTRAGE” over winter heating bills set to soar by nearly 20 percent — while her own fingerprints are all over the shortage driving prices through the roof.

“These rate hikes are outrageous. I am urging the DPU to scrutinize this proposal and push back on Eversource,” Healey declared this week. “We need to lower costs for families and businesses, especially as we head into winter.”

Eversource has warned families their gas bills could explode this winter, with hikes up to 17 percent. The spike threatens to squeeze households already battered by inflation, groceries, and housing costs. Healey rushed to the cameras to slam the utility, demanding regulators block the increases. But voters aren’t forgetting her past — the governor herself once bragged about killing not one, but two pipelines that would have pumped relief straight into Massachusetts homes.

Back in 2015, Healey trumpeted a glossy climate report that claimed Massachusetts didn’t need new pipelines. The study insisted the power grid would remain reliable through 2030 without new gas capacity, and promoted efficiency programs and climate goals instead. Healey used it as a weapon to fight pipeline projects across the region.

Her office later put it in black and white, telling WBSM’s Barry Richard: “As Attorney General, Governor Healey successfully argued that the people of Massachusetts should not be footing the bill for two new natural gas pipelines. Once the companies learned that they were going to have to pay for the pipelines without passing the costs onto consumers, they withdrew their proposal. Governor Healey has always stood up for the ratepayers of Massachusetts.”

Now families are paying the price. No pipelines. No extra supply. Just crushing bills and a governor pretending to be shocked by the very storm she whipped up. With limited gas capacity, utilities are forced to buy costly supply on the open market whenever demand spikes — and those costs are dumped directly on consumers.

Healey wants the spotlight as the savior, railing against corporations and regulators, but many see her as the arsonist-turned-firefighter, raging against flames she lit herself.

This winter, the politics won’t heat your home. The bill will. And for ordinary families staring at double-digit hikes, Healey’s outrage is cold comfort. The governor can rage at utilities all she wants, but the bills are coming — and voters know exactly who helped write them.