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Coming Soon To a Theater Near You!

“The cost of living has increased and yet you’re still expected to live on the money provided for when there wasn’t a crisis … I either can have my heating on or eat,” Grimsby, England, resident Philip Keetley told Reuters. Keetley couldn’t turn on his fan during the record-breaking heatwaves that swept the archipelago this summer, the outlet noted. He simply couldn’t afford it.

From the Daily Caller:

“‘Fuel poverty’ is defined as a low-income household spending 10% or more of their money on energy, Reuters noted. For Keetley, who lives on 600 pounds-sterling a month ($706.44), he now has to eat one meal a day despite reducing his energy consumption to the bare minimum, Reuters continued. Yet, he still spends 15% of his income on fuel. 

The lives of Europeans are changing rapidly as the energy crisis hits homes and businesses across the continent in August, with many families giving up practices we often take for granted.

Europeans are spending a record amount of their income on energy, according to Reuters. Many families are limiting their use of ovens, choosing to shower at work, and no longer ironing their clothes to cut back on the costs, the outlet reported.

British consumers can expect further price hikes throughout 2022, with costs anticipated to rise another 80% in October, according to a statement released Friday by UK energy regulator Ofgem. The average cost of energy bills is expected to reach the equivalent of $4,188, plunging millions of homes into fuel poverty and businesses into jeopardy, Reuters reported.”

Indeed Europe is in quite a pickle. A substantial amount of its energy is either “green,” or had come from Russia. Here in the U.S we are fortunate that we are … oops, make that “we were energy self-sufficient”

Luckily last winter was relatively mild throughout the country. If this winter is different, then the movie, “fuel poverty,” will be coming to a theater near you, and we will only have one person to thank … “Thank you, President Biden!”

8/31/22

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