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March 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Hills Fuel Poverty Review was carried out by Professor John Hills, a London School of Economics academic who was assigned last year by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to examine the issue of fuel poverty, which has been linked to 2,700 deaths a year.
The report found that under the current definition of fuel poverty, around 4m of the total of 21.5m households in England are struggling to pay their bills.
It also predicted that typical household energy bills are expected to hit £1,250 a year by 2020, up from £1,060 in 2010, by using a new way of measuring fuel poverty, taking into account households with lower than average incomes but higher than average fuel costs.
“There is no doubt that fuel poverty is a serious national problem – increasing hardship, contributing to winter deaths and other health problems, and blocking policies to combat climate change,” Hills said.
“The outlook is profoundly disappointing, with the scale of the problem heading to be nearly three times higher in 2016 – the date legislation set for its elimination – than in 2003.”
Furthermore, Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director General of Age UK accused the former Labour and the current Coalition governments in the UK of “fighting a losing the battle against fuel poverty,” warning that the report shows “the fuel poverty gap will rise by a further half to £1.7 billion by 2016.”
While “profoundly disappointing” figures indicated that the British government will miss its legislative target of eradicating fuel poverty by 2016, Ed Davey, the Energy Secretary claimed the Tory-led government is committed to tackling the problem.
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