Across the U.S., families are looking to the winter with dread as energy costs soar and fuel supplies tighten.
JAY, Maine —
“It’s a hard one,” he said. “What are you going to choose for food, or what amount of fuel oil are you going to choose to stay warm?” That comes against inflation rates that accelerated last month with consumer prices growing 6.6%, the fastest such pace in four decades. Both Raymo and Tyler work full-time jobs. He works as many as 70 or 80 hours a week in an orthopedists’ office and she works from home in shareholder services for a financial services company. They don’t qualify for much help even though they’re scraping by to keep up with repairs, buy gas and put food on the table — and heat their 100-year-old home in a state known for bitter cold weather.
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