Sentences with phrase «of fuel poor»

Dale clarified it in another post when he said that ``... the FIT itself is funded by energy bills — so it's a subsidy from all users to a few — that's OK if it all goes to the fuel poor as you describe — but in practice a lot of it (most of it) goes to the fuel rich — increasing the bills of the fuel poor.

Around 36,000 homes in Cornwall are in fuel poverty, with Cornwall in the top 10 of fuel poor areas in the country.

Moreover, 49 % of all fuel poor households receive no Winter Fuel Payment, as they are not pensioner households.

(Table) Number of fuel poor households nationally 2011.

A transformative programme of housing improvements is needed to get the job done far quicker and a commitment to additional and adequate resources to guarantee we do not leave the majority of the fuel poor households still living in expensive - to - heat homes, over the next five to ten years.

«NEA will work with its members and partners across the country in coming weeks to ensure the voices of the fuel poor are heard through the consultation period on the Government's Fuel Poverty Strategy and to ensure the policies and programmes that underpin it are properly resourced and are deliverable.

The UK's leading fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA) has today welcomed Energy Minster Chris Huhne's pledge that the needs of fuel poor households will be prioritised in the proposed Green Deal, due to be launched next year.

As part of the Policy and Research Directorate, the team supports NEA as the expert voice on behalf of the fuel poor through the provision of evidence and insights to help the charity achieve its vision of no - one living in fuel poverty.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The report said Qantas recorded poor fuel efficiency because it used older, fuel - intensive aircraft, carried a low amount of freight (therefore making it less efficient) and also had relatively low numbers of passengers on each plane.

After decades of poor upkeep, the refineries are bleeding money as well as fuel.

Your cause has to be more important than our out - of - control lives that are fueled by nutrient - poor foods and a lack of peace.

At a moment when the Republicans are talking about entitlement reform, and Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is proposing to triple the rents of some of the poorest people in the country, the sight of big banks reporting surges in profits that were fuelled by tax cuts raises alarming moral questions.

One of the primary contributors to the company's poor results, according to CEO Jack Lipinski, is the «exorbitant costs of Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) under the broken Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.»

My rejection and fear of myself fueled my own sin cycle and resulted in very poor decision making and very unhealthy expressions of my sexuality.

Caritas Internationalis president Cardinal Luis Tagle said: «The poor are suffering greatly from the climate crisis and fossil fuels are among the main drivers of this injustice.

They argue that justice for the poor is best served if everyone in the developed nations reduces his «carbon footprint» and thus his consumption of energy, which is mostly created from fossil fuels.

And if fuel shortages are a bother for us, they are devastating to the poor countries; the energy crisis is widening the gap between the rich and the poor nations of this world at a terrifying pace.

We should also have a massive program for retrofitting the homes of the poor so that rising fuel prices can be countered by reduced energy needs.

• Consequent to the notion of disaster, and fueled by MacIntyre's polemicism, there is a streak of victimhood running through MacIntyre's work, and especially through the attitudes of his adherents — «we poor moderns» and such.

The transition to an ecologically sustainable society requires reduced consumption of goods, the efficient recycling of materials, a move away from the use of fossil fuels to the use of renewable sources of energy, zero global population growth, a reduced standard of living for the rich, an increased standard of living for the poor and an appeal to quality of life instead of materialism.

Apart from fuelling the economies in some of the world's poorest countries it also makes the most amazing caramel when baked.

Forged documents, varying standards and poor enforcement of rules are fuelling a flood of non-compliant building product imports that are putting the industry under pressure and unsuspecting consumers at risk.

Man United's desire to bring in further signings may well be fueled by two poor displays, Sunday's draw at Sunderland marginally more impressive than their opening day defeat at home to Swansea City, and top of the pile could well be a «Marquee» deal that would break the British transfer record by some distance.

When in fact, most of the people who fuel those wages (the poor ol' fans) hardly earn such money over the course of a year.

They will undoubtedly talk about how poor Arsenal are, how Arsène doesn't seem to be able to do it, yet they also fuel the fire with their own narrative and you only have to look at the Gary Neville comments to see that Sky want to be front and centre about telling the world of Arsenal's decline.

There are people who watch things like this, people who may already have a bias or a poor understanding of homeschooling, and unfairly use it as further fuel... justification to continue to mistrust, misunderstand, or hold animosity towards alternative means of education.

The Resolution will be especially important in relation to the new partnerships and «multi-stakeholder» arrangements that are springing up to tackle poor nutrition - many of which are pushing fortified processed baby foods and fuelling the multi-billion «business of malnutrition.»

Current annual spending on energy efficiency improvements in fuel poor homes in England is circa # 490m, a proportion of the GB wide Energy Company Obligation (ECO) programme.

Poor Liz as a Leader of the Democ» RAT» ic Senate «CRAZY -RCB- Committee you must realize that your «INSANE» polices of tax and tax, spend and spend are fueling that anger that the voters have.

Now, the coalition government is refocusing its aid programme to fuel the engine of development — the private sector — to help provide Africa's poorest people with the means to create their own wealth.

Improving the homes of all low income households, rather than «LIHC fuel poor», households is required as it helps overcome the difficulty of «churn» arising from the relative Low Income High Cost (LIHC) definition and make the delivery and targeting of programmes much more straightforward.

According to DECC's most recent annual report on fuel poverty there are 4.5 million fuel - poor households in the UK — this equates to 17 per cent of all UK households.

A narrow win on a poor show could lead to the public having a sense of a judgement «not proven» which could prove to be difficult and disruptive for a long time to come and could further fuel that feeling of distance from democracy.

The UK Fuel Poverty Strategy defines a fuel - poor household as one needing to spend more than 10 % of household income to achieve a satisfactory and healthy heating regFuel Poverty Strategy defines a fuel - poor household as one needing to spend more than 10 % of household income to achieve a satisfactory and healthy heating regfuel - poor household as one needing to spend more than 10 % of household income to achieve a satisfactory and healthy heating regime.

It is fuelled by a great many legitimate grievances such as poor administration and the evidence of corruption made public by the Car Wash Operation, but it is also led by the prejudices of a privileged social class which discourages more widespread support for the movement.

«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.

Fuel poverty is caused by a combination of low incomes, high energy prices, and poor - quality energy inefficient housing.

But the NPA said, «The Authority encourages consumers and the media to check on the price board of retail stations to determine the true prices of fuel on the market and not rely on the data from any group of persons who purport to project fuel prices which always turns out to be poor and inaccurate.

This lack of commitment is further evidenced by the withdrawal of all Treasury funding for energy efficiency programmes from next year in contrast to the Devolved Administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which will continue to support fuel - poor households through their own Government - funded programmes.»

«The poorest fifth of households spend 3.5 % of their disposable income on fuel duty, while the richest spend 1.8 %.»

One in ten UK households are living in fuel poverty, one in five of which are pensioners; and at least # 1 for every # 4 spent on heating UK homes is wasted due to poor insulation.

Declaring that there is a «crisis of leadership in this City» Massey accused de Blasio of employing «dangerous rhetoric» with the goal of fueling acrimony between «rich against poor, black against white.»

The problem is doubling fuel duty would really, really hurt a lot of poor (and lower middle) income families who need their cars for work (due to where their employer is based) and to visit family.

[1] From 2013 the Energy Company Obligation will provide annual funding of around # 540 million to assist fuel - poor households; in 2010 - 2011 a combination of Warm Front and Energy Supplier Obligations provided support in the region of # 1.1 billion.

According to Standard and Poor's Global Platts benchmark for Gasoline and Gasoil, prices of both products recorded increments on the international fuel market.

The statistics also show that the poorest continue to live in the worst homes with the depth and likelihood of being fuel poor increasing markedly with lower levels of energy efficiency.

The new targets, set out in a statutory instrument tabled today in Parliament, require that all fuel poor households must be bought up to a minimum of EPC band C by 2030 with interim targets of a minimum of EPC band E by 2020 and D by 2025.

NEA believes fuel poverty is caused by a combination of low incomes, high energy prices and poor standards of heating and insulation.

People fear shareholder interests are being put in front of the needs of families and the fuel poor.