Posted on 11/19/2022 6:22:58 AM PST by karpov
As the first frigid weather of autumn chills the Northeast, many people are faced with a tough decision: deal with the surging costs of heating their homes or live without it.
Home heating prices are skyrocketing yet again this winter, up 18% nationwide on top of last year’s 17% spike, according to the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA).
Charmaine Johnson works in the call center at Philadelphia’s Heater Hotline, part of a non-profit that assists low-income families with their heating systems and bills. Johnson, 63, can relate to the concerns she’s hearing all day. She, too, is struggling to afford her heating bills.
With help from her son, Johnson just paid more than $1,000 to fill part of her oil tank, which she hopes will last her most of the winter.
Johnson says she doesn’t qualify for government assistance with her heating bills. As inflation also pushes up her food budget and other expenses, she is bundling up and keeping the heat turned down, hoping to stretch that oil for as long as possible.
“It’s miserable,” she said. “It’s like living in an igloo.”
Several factors are driving hikes in home heating prices, including the war in Ukraine, OPEC+ cuts, a surge in energy exports, lower energy inventories, and a high demand for natural gas in the US electric power sector, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
EIA projects heating a home with natural gas will cost an extra 25% this winter, and heating with electric will run 11% higher. The steepest hike will be on heating oil, which is expected to be 45% more expensive than last winter, squeezing roughly 5 million households, mostly in the Northeast.
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I do love my wood buring stove and the fact that my house is in a forrest.
It’s no longer the economy, stupid. It’s the Erf. For the Erf to be happy, you must freeze. Don’t worry, your Democrat overlords are happy as clams in their heated mansions provided by you the tax payer.
And you can blame it on the failure of people in the government! imho
RuhROh! Is this a warning to Florida snapping of at the Gerogia/Alabama lines if too many folks move there? Not exactly like the Guam thing but you get it.
You can not argue with this TRUTH that there's a war going on against America....AND it's time for people to wake up!!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/FtRYtna3YYe9/
war in Ukraine, OPEC+ cuts, a surge in energy exports, lower energy inventories, and a high demand for natural gas in the US electric power sector, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
BULLSHIT THE BIDEN REGIME IS RESPONSBLE FOR THIS DELIBERATE ATTACK
Enjoy your Biden vote, Charmaine.
Wait till the water pipes start freezing in houses. That is a major expense.
We had an ice storm here in Missouri in 07. Out of power for 11 days and Cold. Poor people ended up with some major expenses. Between the rocky ground that is hard to dig deep and normally mild climate lines are not buried like they should be.
Maybe there votes for Democrats will help warm their hearts?
you get what you vote for, many people voted for more pain and thus they will now get it.
I was about to respond and say that. Thanks.
Elections have consequences
My aunts mother chose to live in East Germany after the war. There was frost on their wall in the winter! But she blamed her situation on the United States, not the Communists.
Wait till winter sets in and there will be a chorus of bursting pipes.
Voters, you just voted for Democrat incumbents Senators. Nothing is going to change, morons. The War on Energy will continue, morons. That means expensive energy, morons.
What we need is a technology that can heat houses in the short term, while simultaneously warming the globe so fewer people have to freeze in the future.
If only there were such a technology, it could solve all of our problems...
Plus, refrigerators will not chill properly if outside temperature around them drops below high 50s.
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