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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Wonder who she voted for.
We may have to return to whale oil for light it night. It’s organic and renewable. Probably enough oil in Fetterman’s neck cyst to keep most of Pittsburgh lit through the winter.
Good. Misery is the price for electing communists.
A little global warming would come in handy right about now.
I’m sorry, I can’t care more about your well-being than you do.
Isn’t it grand? We have one of the most advanced nations on earth. Or had I should say, as now we are going back to caveman times where people freeze to death because the nation won’t allow energy independence and affordable heating oil prices
Hire a dem, and go right back to the stone ages!
But ole Joe is focused like a laser on solving the problem of inflation (which he created).
“I can’t care more about your well-being than you do.”
Well put!
Let it go, let to go…
That is nasty…
If it does it would defy all the laws of physics.
Not to worry. Butt-gag, FJB’s “supply chain expert” will come to their rescue.
This is 100% what the Northeast voted for. I hope they enjoy getting exactly what they wanted this winter.
Yes, this article was a disinformation campaign meant to cover up for the Dems’ efforts to make oil as rare and expensive as they can get away with.
Hope there is enough money to soon pay for all electric cars. I buy gas at a discount, shopping around. Can’t do that with electricity.
I think about dessert California draining water from farmers who feed us so they can live in a dessert… will red states be drained with their electrical overhaul?
We already bail out their progressive policies by being taxed.
With the non citizen votes we are being taxed, but not represented.
Well maybe you drooling imbeciles should have voted Republican last week. Freeze and starve to death. I will laugh.
Sounds like the poor old fella needs to get out dating. Two can live as cheaply as one and two SS checks could double the fun.
I have no sympathy for those that voted Democrat.
None.
Northeast states have lots of “energy assistance programs”.
The article managed to find someone who made enough income so she didn’t qualify for them, but there are millions of families that do qualify.
If they use electric heat the company will continue to bill them but will not shut them off for nonpayment during the winter.
Wanna bet me that they all have cell phones-—pay TV channels-—gameboy —and other ‘fun things’???
How many have EV’s???
How about a refrigerator with the glass door you can see thru??? DUMBEST THING EVER !!!
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