Individuals put together for heating prices this winter as utilities rise

  • An estimated 1 in 6 American households are already behind on their utility payments after a scorching summer season.
  • The U.S. Vitality Info Administration says pure fuel costs are anticipated to leap 28%.
  • Those that are financially susceptible are older individuals dwelling on fastened incomes who cannot work, specialists say.

LONGMONT, Colo. — The temperature is dipping towards freezing Tuesday evening and Toni Stark is getting anxious about her rickety basement furnace holding out for an additional winter.

Her plumber informed her it should in all probability make it by way of, however at 99 years previous, Stark is not taking something without any consideration – whether or not that is having the ability to maintain the furnace operating or remaining in her dwelling as the electrical and heating payments start to mount with the chilly.

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