{"id":1355,"date":"2009-03-16T18:10:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T17:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2009-03-16T18:10:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T17:10:06","slug":"the-scandal-of-fuel-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"The scandal of fuel poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>5 million households in Britain shiver through<br \/>\nwinter because their homes are so poorly<br \/>\ninsulated they cannot afford to heat them.<\/p>\n<li>Over 1 million older people have to choose<br \/>\nbetween eating and heating.<\/p>\n<li>1 in 3 older people are forced to live in only one<br \/>\nroom of their home.<\/p>\n<li>Britain\u2019s homes leak twice as much heat and power<br \/>\nas homes in Nordic countries \u2013 meaning higher fuel<br \/>\nbills and more CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n<li>1,400,000 children\u2019s lives are blighted: it affects their<br \/>\neducation and their friendships.<\/p>\n<li>Fuel poverty costs the health service \u00a31.9 billion<br \/>\nevery year.<\/p>\n<li>That means an average \u00a32.9 million annual waste in your area.<\/ul>\n<p>This Friday, your Member of Parliament has the chance to end this scandal by<br \/>\nvoting for the Fuel Poverty Bill. Please contact them<br \/>\ntoday to insist they do just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 million households in Britain shiver through winter because their homes are so poorly insulated they cannot afford to heat them. Over 1 million older people have to choose between eating and heating. 1 in 3 older people are forced to live in only one room of their home. Britain\u2019s homes leak twice as much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}