Heating oil crisis this winter
October 10th, 2005
A major crisis is brewing and the administration and press are largely ignoring it. Heating costs are predicted to rise 30-50% this winter over last year. For many of the poor, this will be a catastrophe, one that there are no government plans to tackle [See Does Bush even know about the impending heating crisis this winter? on AmericaBlog.]
But it’s important to remember that these increases will pose serious problems for many in the northern half of the country who are not “poor”, but don’t have extra hundreds of dollars floating around to donate to the oil and natural gas companies. Expect tempers to heat up when the temperature gets cold.
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1. Melody | July 28th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
I am worried as can be here in Massachusetts. Last year many middle income people I know had a really hard time heating their homes and businesses. Everyone I know has insulated, put plastic on windows, blocked off rooms and kept the heat temp. around 60 degrees and they still had a difficult time paying the heating bills.
This year looks like it will be a dissaster. It looks like even people with half decent jobs will need to make tough choices to stay warm. Where it used to cost a few hundred dollars a year to heat a home (just 5 years agao) most of us can look forward to paying in the thousands this year.There will be no extra money for savings or non-essentials that is for certain. This will devastate many areas of our economy.
Pretty soon every penny we are earning will be going to energy, some sort of insurance, basic housing and food. Many of us are working day and night just to cover these things.
The poor and elderly will get a LITTLE help, for many of them it will be a matter of life and death. However the rest of us will just sink lower and lower into financial instability. NO ONE is talking about this WHY?
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