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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Buying Greenland would be a bargain, yet the same idiots who believe the ice caps are melting mocked Trump for it.
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@BbqhonchoRoy
Almost 9 cans of beer deep in south Buffalo NY!! Hahaha
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“I do love my wood buring stove and the fact that my house is in a forrest”.
Good for you. I love wood head and know it well.
“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”.
Democrat voters will never understand why they suffer due to Dem policies. They are too indoctrinated and can’t connect the dots.
Thanks! I love coal. My mother came from coal country in Pennsylvania.
“Were they raised by social media??”
In a way, yes/kind of. The social media used to have integrity and a belief of telling the truth as best as they had it. But social media has now changed their honor and ethics to the American greenback. So they go where the headlines are fed to them and then when it all comes down to it, picks out someone to blame and polarizes them. And they will ride that train until the steam runs out.
You threw the flameout at the media. I don’t feel they are the reason for the ability to collapse. They are no smarter than the people as they are just one the tools. If you have the chance to look at how the failure started, follow the trail.
Who has the control of the feeding of everything? The government by rules they make. (convenient, huh?) Who feeds the government? Half half here as the government has learned to, also, feed itself. Ah, but, who is the government? The government is a disease that catches the unwary voted in politicians that have an agenda for themselves anyway. And our system feeds it by allowing everyone to speak...kind of. Some are made louder on purpose as that’s where the money comes from. “Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel...”
So, between your media, the education system dumbing them down, the crowding at the top of the money line by the infected politicians, and the lack of concern about who is going to feed the public, the voters are either too stupid as they have been told they are till they believe it, so they act accordingly. It is a wonder we have lasted this long. But if we don’t break the chain, it won’t be much longer. Soon we will be someone else if we aren’t already.
wy69
Keep voting Democrat, Dummy.
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