Often the US is said to be a bully, and I'm not sure if that is a fair comment, because it seems as if the rogue regimes around the world are so often poking and prodding us, testing us, and pushing their way in international negotiations. Not only that, but when they do this, they often do so for unethical reasons, while they continue to dismiss the concepts of freedom, liberty, and human rights in their own nations. The United States needs to stand for something more, and stay with our ideals.
Figures just released by the Office of National Statistics claim that the number of households living in fuel poverty has declined by 0.7million ( see data here ). The government say that less than 5 million households live in fuel poverty, while Uswitch claim that 6.3 million households live in fuel poverty. Uswitch's figure is much more reliable as their's summer 2011 price hikes. We say a family is in fuel poverty when it spends 10% of household income on its dual energy costs of heating the home and operating cooking and electrical appliances. However, as USwitch explain the governments figures are appallingly out of state ( here ). The publication today by the government only examines fuel costs up to the end of 2010. The Office of National Statistics does admit that if it factored in housing costs then 3 million more households could be described as living in fuel poverty, it also admits that 72% of English households faced a high risk of fuel poverty at year end (2010)....
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