: "This is adding to the tax of being poor," said Alan Barreca, economist and professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, who co-authored theFor each day between 2012 and 2017 with a temperature of 95°F, electricity expenses increased an average of 1.6% for nearly 300,000 low-income households in California.
But that is just the impact of one additional 95°F day, when the typical range can include several days that surge total energy costs, researchers say."I think a lot of people who haven't been poor would say, 'Oh, that doesn't seem like much,'" Barreca said — but in reality the added utility cost can be "significant" for those living paycheck to paycheck.
"This is suggesting with hotter summers into the future, falls are going to become financially more precarious, as people are hit with their high energy bills from the summer months and they're overdue, and that those months are going to be a lot harder on families," Barreca tells Axios.
Actually that is caused by high energy costs and inflation.
Also in breaking news nothing is affecting people who have lots of money.
Let me guess, climate change?
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