Oh my, those poor people who won't work so they can pay their heating bill. I hope they can at least put on a couple of layers of clothing to stave off the chill. But if the have no heat, how will they survive? By going to the nearest Walmart and begin stealing food? That would keep them warm for a few hours.
Fuel assistance is something i get and a lot of people in my state get because winters can and do reach -40F -50F actual temps not just windchill, and -100F windchill. Sweaters won't help that.
Both adults in my house work full time we don't get food stamps or anything else, neither of us get ebt, or medicaid or rental assistance.
This also affects disabled and elderly heating assistance is no joke. This isn't just the ebt crowd, this affects a lot of Americans.
If it wasn't for fuel assistance we really would struggle in my house.
I’m in Michigan. We get pretty cold. The minute we found out Biden has “been elected” my husband and I put in a wood burner.
We were lucky to get one without a catalytic converter that makes it hard to get and keep burning. My brother has 40 acres we cut wood on. We just started it up for the season.
Our heat (gas) and electric are in the same bill. Michigan is promising that our bills will be doubled this year due to the fascination with “green” energy. I don’t intend to let them freeze us out!
That sounds awesome. People here use pellet stoves a lot. I don't know where we could put one in this house though our furnace is a really efficient propane one our landlord put in when we moved in. Last winter we only had to fill propane twice and it was cold, hopefully with the new windows and siding they're putting on our house it will be a lot better.
I’m sure the new windows and siding will help. You probably know all this but…jic. A few ideas.
We put that shrink wrap plastic up on windows before we had the stove. We also closed the doors to rooms we don’t use during the day and closed the heat vents in the spare rooms. A programmable thermostat is great too. Before the wood stove we kept the thermostat at 69 in the evening and less during the hours when we worked or slept.
We are richly blessed, thank God! We have a small living room so we put our stove in the small area above the basement stairs. We have an open floor plan so that helps too. Wish I could send you some extra heat fren! I’d stay say to stay frosty but …😉
Needing assistance with heating your home also goes to seniors who have lived in their old farmhouse for generations, worked all their lives, and cannot afford new windows, fire wood or oil. Believe me, they do wear sweaters. There are a lot of working poor, through no fault of their own, can no longer pay what it costs anymore. It goes to 20 below zero with a windchill pushing it lower than 30 below where I live. People die trying to heat their house. The money also goes toward winterizing peoples home. Not everyone who gets assistance is lazy, this has been a good program in Vermont. I know loggers who provide wood for people. A friend of mine told me about a family who were burning everything they could find to put in their stove, including clothing that they would get from free clothing drives, cardboard from the dump, old christmas trees. Which gunks up the chimney and then the house burns down. The family he helped, Dad a disabled ex logger, Mom, two part time jobs. They were too proud to ask for help and someone from Church told my friend to bring up some wood for them.I can afford my four cords of wood, and I can afford my electricity bill to use back up oil filled radiators on those really cold days. We cover the northwest windows with plastic usually the first of December, and close off rooms during the day when the woodstove is blasting, Hang blankets over the doors on those 30 below nights. I am 75 and still collect a salary for taking in a disabled man as a boarder, providing him with care, and my son does the heavy lifting and transport that I can no longer do. But if I did not have that, I too would need assistance staying alive through winter, because my social security and meager savings would not cover both cordwood and electric. I get by on 4 cords of wood a season, buy it in May and let it season outdoors, have it stacked by my son. That is 1200 bucks right there, A few winters were mild, did not need the electric back up. Frozen pipes are not fun at my age, luckily we work at home to keep the stove going.
Oh my, those poor people who won't work so they can pay their heating bill. I hope they can at least put on a couple of layers of clothing to stave off the chill. But if the have no heat, how will they survive? By going to the nearest Walmart and begin stealing food? That would keep them warm for a few hours.
Fuel assistance is something i get and a lot of people in my state get because winters can and do reach -40F -50F actual temps not just windchill, and -100F windchill. Sweaters won't help that. Both adults in my house work full time we don't get food stamps or anything else, neither of us get ebt, or medicaid or rental assistance.
This also affects disabled and elderly heating assistance is no joke. This isn't just the ebt crowd, this affects a lot of Americans.
If it wasn't for fuel assistance we really would struggle in my house.
I’m in Michigan. We get pretty cold. The minute we found out Biden has “been elected” my husband and I put in a wood burner. We were lucky to get one without a catalytic converter that makes it hard to get and keep burning. My brother has 40 acres we cut wood on. We just started it up for the season. Our heat (gas) and electric are in the same bill. Michigan is promising that our bills will be doubled this year due to the fascination with “green” energy. I don’t intend to let them freeze us out!
That sounds awesome. People here use pellet stoves a lot. I don't know where we could put one in this house though our furnace is a really efficient propane one our landlord put in when we moved in. Last winter we only had to fill propane twice and it was cold, hopefully with the new windows and siding they're putting on our house it will be a lot better.
I’m sure the new windows and siding will help. You probably know all this but…jic. A few ideas.
We put that shrink wrap plastic up on windows before we had the stove. We also closed the doors to rooms we don’t use during the day and closed the heat vents in the spare rooms. A programmable thermostat is great too. Before the wood stove we kept the thermostat at 69 in the evening and less during the hours when we worked or slept.
We are richly blessed, thank God! We have a small living room so we put our stove in the small area above the basement stairs. We have an open floor plan so that helps too. Wish I could send you some extra heat fren! I’d stay say to stay frosty but …😉
Needing assistance with heating your home also goes to seniors who have lived in their old farmhouse for generations, worked all their lives, and cannot afford new windows, fire wood or oil. Believe me, they do wear sweaters. There are a lot of working poor, through no fault of their own, can no longer pay what it costs anymore. It goes to 20 below zero with a windchill pushing it lower than 30 below where I live. People die trying to heat their house. The money also goes toward winterizing peoples home. Not everyone who gets assistance is lazy, this has been a good program in Vermont. I know loggers who provide wood for people. A friend of mine told me about a family who were burning everything they could find to put in their stove, including clothing that they would get from free clothing drives, cardboard from the dump, old christmas trees. Which gunks up the chimney and then the house burns down. The family he helped, Dad a disabled ex logger, Mom, two part time jobs. They were too proud to ask for help and someone from Church told my friend to bring up some wood for them.I can afford my four cords of wood, and I can afford my electricity bill to use back up oil filled radiators on those really cold days. We cover the northwest windows with plastic usually the first of December, and close off rooms during the day when the woodstove is blasting, Hang blankets over the doors on those 30 below nights. I am 75 and still collect a salary for taking in a disabled man as a boarder, providing him with care, and my son does the heavy lifting and transport that I can no longer do. But if I did not have that, I too would need assistance staying alive through winter, because my social security and meager savings would not cover both cordwood and electric. I get by on 4 cords of wood a season, buy it in May and let it season outdoors, have it stacked by my son. That is 1200 bucks right there, A few winters were mild, did not need the electric back up. Frozen pipes are not fun at my age, luckily we work at home to keep the stove going.
No, they will go back to their Caribbean home and spend the winter there.