Tag: low income home energy

Finally some good news from the White House: The Bush administration on Wednesday released $450 million in emergency funds to help poor families pay their expensive heating bills this winter. Record high heating oil prices due to record crude oil costs of $100 a barrel are cutting into family budgets, with senior citizens and poorer […]

When Democrats successfully got the ANWR provision stripped from the defense budget on Wednesday, Republicans decided to punish the poor people in the country by hurting their federal assistance with rising heating prices. This is brought up by a newpress release issued by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorites, a non-partisan research group: WASHINGTON, […]