Sentences with phrase «becoming fuel poor»

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«Although well intentioned, the last Government received very little for their money in terms of social mobility and a reduction in the gap between the rich and the poor, and they have further fuelled a culture of benefit dependency in which children grow up seeing parents and grandparents who have never worked as their role models, in which people are better off living apart than living together, and in which there is no incentive to work because of the fear of becoming worse off.

For instance, removing subsidies means that the switch to modern fuels may become out of reach for many poor people, the results show.

Water - related disasters have become the most economically and socially destructive of all natural hazards, disproportionately affecting women, poor and disadvantaged people and fuelling poverty.

At an average 18 mpg, the 5060 - pound Acadia boasted a notable improvement over the Chevy, but poor fuel economy would nevertheless become our biggest complaint.

However, as it became clear that biofuels were not only connected to deforestation, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions (sometimes exceeding fossil fuels), but also competed with the global food supply and water sources, biofuels no longer seemed like a silver bullet, but a new problem facing the environment and the poor.