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> It’s sort of unthinkable in the US but lots of people sat in the cold last winter. It's weird, but the US _does_ have assistance for heating for low income f
by abeppu 3y ago
> It’s sort of unthinkable in the US but lots of people sat in the cold last winter.
It's weird, but the US _does_ have assistance for heating for low income families. This is not to say that it's always adequate, but it does exist. Do Europeans have similar programs? Are they just underfunded relative to need in times when fuel prices spike? Or are they too hard to get into?
- goodcanadian 3y agoThis issue, last winter, was that energy prices spiked much higher in Europe than they did in the US due to the fact that most of the gas used in Europe used to come from Russia. This issue has been largely sorted out, and I do not expect things to be quite so drastic this winter. That said, there were definitely programs to help out the hardest hit; it was tough for some, but people weren't freezing to death.