It also cites predictions there would be three million "poor fuel" households by the end of 2006.
The proposals would also enable the gas distribution companies to connect around 80, 000 "poor fuel households" to the gas network for the first time, and pay for carbon monoxide awareness programmes.
In fact, programs that help the poor afford fuel have been identified as the largest category of fossil fuel subsidies in the world.
"The Fuel Poverty Coalition says that 300, 000 homes are fuel poor, " said Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas opening the debate for Plaid Cymru.
They call on the Welsh government to establish a plan for upgrading the energy efficiency ratings of the entire Welsh housing stock, prioritising the fuel poor.
More than half of the energy and climate change policy costs in household bills are spent on measures to target the fuel poor and energy efficiency.
To beat fuel poverty we either have to make energy cheaper or give more money to those fuel poor households so they can buy more of it.
Kevin Roxburgh from Scottish Gas-Centrica told the committee he would like to see a biased towards helping fuel poor in rural areas where the housing stock is more of a problem.
Many of those cars do have poor emissions and fuel efficiency ratings but are produced in such small quantities and are driven so infrequently that they don't significantly contribute to air-pollution problems.
"The number of fuel-poor households helped by government-backed schemes is likely to more than halve over the next three years, despite fuel poverty levels having almost tripled in five years, " said Derek Lickorish, chairman of the FPAG.
MPs and MSPs will visit fuel-poor housholds across the UK as part of Warm Homes Week, organised by National Energy Action.
The airline has blamed its poor results on rising fuel costs and falling demand because of increases in air passenger duty.
By this definition, the report finds 7.8 million people were fuel-poor in 2009, across 2.7 million households, more than previously thought.
And whatever Hugo Chavez's motives are for providing cheap heating fuel for the poor - to many Americans actions speak louder than words.
Economic hardship and tightening spending constraints have brought the resulting tensions into the open: witness the recent row over whether the government should impose a windfall tax on energy companies and use the money to help poor families meet their rising fuel bills (it didn't).
According to the World Bank, only 10% of Indonesian fuel subsidies benefit the poor.
But even as we built airplanes and cars and weapons of astounding reliability and precision, they are still at the mercy of a madman with a gun, or a moron with the wrong fuel or jerk with poor judgment.
Calculate carbon emissions for a road trip or flight and buy offsets to fund worldwide projects that employ those in poverty, such as tree-planting programmes that hire low-income workers, or projects that help both the poor and the environment by distributing fuel-efficient stoves, as opposed to wood-burning ones used in most homes in developing countries.
Humans don't use animal power for agriculture much more, but oxen and horses are still harnessed for work in less-developed countries, particularly as poor farmers have to deal with increasing fuel prices.
Poor countries' food-export bans and fuel subsidies compounded the problems.
By that point Venezuela could also be a significant exporter of refined products like gasoline and jet fuel, as environmental controls and poor investment returns keep the U.S. refining industry from expanding to meet demand.
For instance, according to a Scottish Office study, an increase of 10% in the price of fuel will reduce the mileage of poor people in the countryside by twice as much as that of more affluent households.
For example during the party's welfare review, should a One Nation Labour Party defend the principle of universal benefits - or would its concern for the poor cost, for example, better off pensioners their winter fuel allowance?
Mr Alexander said the government was working to bring in the scheme because people in the remotest parts of the country were hit by a "triple whammy" of high fuel costs, having to drive long distances and having poor public transport.
But only a tiny fraction of the fuel subsidy actually goes to people whom the government classifies as poor (see chart 6).
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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).
The pressure of a desperately poor and growing population has led to the indiscriminate felling of trees, for fuel as well as to increase cultivable acreage.
In response to the effects of poor consumer confidence, Kathwari set new initiatives in place to help sales rebound and fuel growth.
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The EPA pulled off the feat by sharply increasing the amount of oxygen-poor exhaust that is recirculated into the combustion chamber and increasing the pressure of the fuel being forced into the cylinder.
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