Cities like Houston get high humidity in addition to the heat, making summer almost unbearable without cooling. Brandon Bell/Getty Images
The U.S. is headed into what forecasters expect to be one of the hottest summers on record, and millions of people across the country will struggle to pay their power bills as temperatures and energy costs rise.
A 2023 national survey found that nearly 1 in 4 Americans were unable to pay their full energy bill for at least one month, and nearly 1 in 4 reported that they kept their homes at unsafe temperatures to save money. By 2025, updated polling indicated nearly 3 in 4 Americans are worried about rising energy costs.
Conservative estimates suggest that utilities shut off power to over 3 million U.S. households each year because the residents cannot pay their bills.
This problem of high energy prices isn’t lost on the Trump administration.
On the first day of his second term in 2025, President Donald Trump declared a national energy…
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Publish date : 2025-05-14 04:36:00
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