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People freeze to death every winter because they can't afford fuel. I have no idea what your analogy is supposed to mean.
by phaemon 7y ago
People freeze to death every winter because they can't afford fuel. I have no idea what your analogy is supposed to mean.
- valuearb 7y agoWhere?
- fyfy18 7y agoIn the UK around 3,000 people die per year because they can't afford fuel costs. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/cold-weather-uk-winter-deaths-europe-polar-vortex-a8224276.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/cold-weathe...
- valuearb 7y agoHow? The cost to heat a home is a tiny fraction of the cost of owning a home.
- mirimir 7y agoA couple decades ago, we owned an 18th century house in the northeastern US, with some 19th century additions. The mortgage and taxes totaled ~$2.5K per month, and oil heating cost peaked at $500 per month in the winter. It had an historic designation, and insulating it properly would have been impossibly expensive.
- phaemon 7y agoBecause percentages don't matter when you're poor. And, of course, a poor person will probably be renting, not owning, a home. If you've only got $30 left to cover food and electricity (and your heating is all electric), you basically choose between food or heating. Google seems determined to give me UK stats, instead of US ones. Perhaps in the US you become homeless before you have to make that choice?
- valuearb 7y agoHow did you pay your mortgage or rent if you only have $30 left for heat?
- ThePowerOfFuet 7y agoBecause you're living on little income which leaves little after the rent is paid.
- phaemon 7y agoImagine you get paid 250 a week. Your rent is 200 a week. You have 20 you need to pay for travel. That leaves you 30. If you don't pay rent you become homeless and then you will lose your job. Do you understand?
- valuearb 7y agoSo you are saying you only have to increase your income about 5% to have enough money for heat?
- phaemon 7y agoI don't normally complain about downvotes, mainly because I don't care, but in this case I'm simply disgusted that people are so ignorant and lazy that they'd downvote a statement of fact regarding fuel poverty. Try checking the accuracy of statements before downvoting, and get out of your pampered, spoilt little lives once in a while and see how normal people actually live. EDIT: Note, I'm not talking about valuearb here. They had the good sense to ask about it.