Dallas – Angela Harmon and her grandson Leo moved to a warm day in Dallas, Texas, run by their church. This is where they stay cool because it is more to run the air conditioner of the hormone at home She can tolerate,
“It’s expensive, it’s expensive, and I have to collide to pay it,” Harmon told CBS News, revealing that her daughter sometimes has to help her to pay her electricity bills.
Chris Semans of Harmon at the Cornerstone Baptist Church said, “Many of our communities have very little income.”
“Many of them, if they have added health status, could not survive,” Simmons said about their circles that cannot do air conditioning. “They can’t survive.”
Last year to pay his utility bills, Harmon trusted Federal Government’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance ProgramLiheap, a utility aid program through the Department of American Health and Human Services that serves more than six million Americans.
But the budget proposal of President Trump for the financial year of 2026 will end Leap,
In a statement to CBS News, a spokesman for the management and budget of the White House, which Leap said, “A failed program” which is also located in fraud – for example thousands of ‘dead’ people and hundreds of prisoners have funded. In addition, lihap is unrelatedly funds like California, whose new green scam policies increase house energy prices. ,
The spokesperson said the White House would leave the states to pay and provide its utility assistance.
Andrew Desceler, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Texas A&M, study the impact of climate change on consumers.
His research has determined that the cost of electricity is increasing due to climate change.
According to his research, between the summer of 2023 and 2024, climate change increased by an average of 35% in the New England region, 30% in California, 20% in Texas and 17% in New York.
And As The latest consumer price index from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the cost of electricity in July increased by 5.5% in July.
The dresser said that when the temperature is very hot and peaks occur, the cost of electricity may increase and those additional costs are eventually passed with consumers.
“You can draw a line from humans emitting greenhouse gases directly into the atmosphere, increasing the temperature. This means that people have to run their air conditioner more.”
A bright place Daler got solar energy. He said that it is the cheapest form of energy and can help reduce prices. But he is anxious consumer Trump administration will hurt by policies He Has slipped Renewable projects in favor of high cost oil and natural gas.
,It is going to make things very worse, “The dresser said.” It is going to be very expensive. ,
As the temperature rises, the cost of energy is determined to go with them.
“This is in my mind every day,” said Harmon.
