We've increased subsidies for college tuition, and we subsidize heating fuel costs as well.
Although electricity bills would fall, the price of gas (the most popular home-heating fuel) would rise.
He describes Athens shrouded in wood smoke as people strip the forests, unable to afford heating fuel.
Once crude is taken from the ground, it must be refined into petrol, heating fuel and so on.
Most recycled cooking oil today is used to power diesel trucks or mixed with home heating fuel, a simpler conversion process.
And whatever Hugo Chavez's motives are for providing cheap heating fuel for the poor - to many Americans actions speak louder than words.
None of these factors bode well for consumers' confidence as they struggle with common living expenses, such as higher home-heating fuel and gasoline costs.
Of the 1.3 billion people without electricity and the 2.7 billion people without access to cooking and heating fuel, two-thirds are women, according to UNDP.
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Heaters, blankets, warm clothing and heating fuel are some of the most pressing needs for the winter months, in addition to food, shelter and mattresses.
Police in rural parts of Hampshire have joined forces with farmers and the rural community in an attempt to trace stolen heating fuel by "tagging" it.
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Richardson said the emergency stockpile would be used only if there was a disruption in heating fuel supplies and not to control energy prices in the region.
U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said on Thursday he was concerned that heating oil stocks are too low and there is the potential for heating fuel shortages this winter.
Four million households in the UK are not connected to the mains gas grid and people in this situation generally have very little choice in their source of heating fuel.
"Our vision is that one of these plants would be the core element of a community energy center" that could provide a local, sustainable source of both transportation and heating fuel.
In coming weeks, the House is committed to major legislation reforming our border security and immigration laws, alleviating the rising costs of gasoline and heating fuel before the winter, and saving tens of billions of dollars through reforming federal entitlement programs.
Andrew Riseley, the regulator's chief executive, said market studies in 2013 would be aimed at reviewing grocery, gas, heating oil and fuel prices.
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But in 1913 one of its scientists, Friedrich Bergius, found a way to turn coal into a high-grade liquid fuel by heating it in the presence of hydrogen and a catalyst.
An alternative is Inertial confinement fusion (ICF), in which fusion of nuclei is initiated by heating and compressing a fuel target, typically in the form of a pellet containing deuterium and tritium contained in a device called a hohlraum (hollow space or cavity) using an extremely powerful laser.
If this technology is adopted when wind prices are low or even potentially negative, it can supplant the need for fossil fuel-based heating.
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Households with oil-fired central heating, and those using solid fuel or liquid petroleum gas to heat their homes, are much more likely to be in fuel poverty than "on-grid" households.
It is a flexible fuel, capable of heating homes, fuelling industrial boilers and providing feedstock for the petrochemicals industry, where it is turned into plastics, fertiliser and other useful stuff.
Quad bikes came second, followed by fuel such as diesel and heating oil.
The firm said it had also been hit by warm weather, which reduced demand for heating oil, and lower sales of jet fuel as the aviation industry struggled to recover from the aftermath of 11 September.
Rather than intervening in the market to manipulate prices, the government could respond to a winter fuel crisis by giving all its heating-oil subsidies to poor consumers (though that would do nothing to win over other voters).
"We believe this technology will, in the long term, be able to provide cheaper and more sustainable heating, which could be an answer to fuel poverty issues prevalent in many areas of Glasgow, particularly those with a mining past and a legacy of poor-quality housing and high unemployment, " he said.
If you have enough fuel, keep your engines on to keep your heating on.
In 2009, about 770, 000 homes were said to be in fuel poverty, spending over 10% of income on heating, compared with 618, 000 in 2008 and 293, 000 in 2002.
Among the energy-saving options, two promising technology switches are the electrification of transportation (electric vehicles can be about four times as energy-efficient as standard fossil-fuel vehicles) and the use of electric-powered heat pumps to deliver winter heating and hot water (heat pumps can be four times as energy-efficient as standard heaters).
The report insists that, in hand with a combination of energy efficiency and fuel-switching measures, this growth in electricity production would be enough to supplant all fossil fuel use (coal, gas and oil), including that for transport and space-heating.
Pricey power, fuelled by high oil prices, is already causing headaches, with MPs muttering about windfall taxes on utility firms and talismanic pledges to reduce fuel poverty (defined as living in a household that spends more than 10% of its income on heating) in tatters.
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