, the average household will consume 9% more gallons of heating oil this winter compared with last winter.
Saucer has been approved for less fuel assistance this winter – about $1,200 – and worries about just how much money she'll need to spend to heat her home. She said her typical natural gas bill for her home in Queens was already unaffordable before the utility company tacked on monthly debt repayments.
Republicans, including Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, say the solution is to increase oil and gas drilling and to slow the transition to renewable energy like wind and solar, which are usually more expensive sources of electricity but also less subject to wild price swings. Acknowledging the growing challenge of summer heat, the federal funds formally known as the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program can now also help people with bills generated by air conditioning or fans.
"It's going to be a winter where people are concentrating a lot on how to stay warm and safe in their homes," she said. While thankful for the assistance, Ritchie worries about others who might need even more help — she's lucky, she says, that she has a house and good enough credit to borrow money if necessary.It's not only low-income people struggling to pay off rising heating costs. Tanya Jones, senior director of energy assistance and community development at HeartShare Human Services in New York, said she’s seeing price hikes affect an unusually large share of middle-income families this year.
More fossil fuels!!!
Thanks to dementia Joe and the democrats with help from jerks like you.
Thanks JoeBiden