Posted on 05/08/2022 8:50:21 AM PDT by Mariner
It is 7.30pm on a Wednesday evening and Donna, a 47-year-old care assistant, is sitting in her Wakefield home, wrapped in a shawl.
Like many across the country, she has become acutely conscious of the rising cost of living. Increasing food, energy and diesel prices are already having a significant impact on her day-to-day life.
Energy tariffs that offer cheaper “off peak” rates allow Donna and many others to shift their use of household appliances to the evening, or night time. Other adjustments, though, are more dramatic, like eating significantly less hot food.
“I have noticed it recently,” she said. “My kids have left home and it’s just me and my partner. I’m washing after six now. We don’t really put the heating on. We wrap. If we put the heating on to take the cold out of the air, it’s after six and it’s only for an hour.”
She added: “We’re eating a lot of cold food, so as not to have to cook.”
Donna’s husband has also begun driving their car to work to save on the additional diesel consumed when she used to drop him off each day and then return home.
She is addressing a focus group of nine working-class voters in Wakefield, all of whom describe their own cut-backs, albeit to varying degrees, to reduce costs.
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A can of dog or cat food is just as nutritious cold as it hot. (Dem spin on elderly during the Reagan years)
To boil water in my tea kettle for tea would cost me about half a cent for electricity for about three cups.
I think to run the heat for an hour would cost me fifty cents here in Florida.
Many Floridians don’t like to run the heat.
In the winter, on cold winter mornings, I will crawl out of bed and turn on the heat. I will go back in the sack for fifteen minutes and then dress and turn off the heat.
Wakefield is in Northern England not far from Leeds.
Can we use oil again then?…
Well.... at least the bangers are safer.
Just a reminder to everyone that the dramatic increase in energy costs in Middle England occurred before the Russian move into Ukraine. That happened back in 2021 because the EU tore up the long-standing energy purchase agreements with Russia in the misconception that they would be able to dictate the price paid. It didn’t work; Russia called their bluff and europe ended up having to pay spot rates. (Although no longer part of the EU, Britain is still part of Western Europe and therefore utlimately also affected.)
As they say, the rest is history...
... and funnily enough we are now in a proxy war with Russia...
“I sent my $1,400 back”
You could have sent/given it to someone who actually needed it.
Environmental movement come full term.
Their voting socialist is going to worsen their problems.
we don’t need the federal debt and deficits
even if Congress did not do its part, I did what I could
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