have worked and that heavenly father is blessing me. what a sweet, sweet boy. easton had to be airlifted from the tournament earlier this month after he fell from a bunk bed in his team s dorm. the 12-year-old suffered a skull fracture and doctors told his family he was minutes from death. easton s recovery has been reremarkable but they caution he still has a long road ahead of him. easton, you asked for prayers, we are praying for you. we talk a lot about the cost of fuel to drive our cars, but what about the fuel we need to keep your homes up and running? millions of americans are behind on their power bills and that s a big concern, especially as we get closer and closer to those cooler months.
we re behind. when you start to drop in income level, the percentage of households that can t make their bills goes up. moderate income households, 27% say they can t pay their bills and low income, about 37.8% of americans say they can t pay their bills right now. that s almost 40%. huge, huge number. and, of course, that has to do with the increase in prices to cool our homes. we re on the brink of changing seasons. it s going to start to cool down but we re all going to need heat. where are we headed, do you think? because of these high natural gas prices, unfortunately, it s not going to get better in the winter. in 2021, the average for all fuel types to heat homes was 1,025 dollars. let s jump over. the projection for this winter into 2023 as well, 1,152 dollars. that s for the whole season, radioi thought? that s for the whole winter
correspondent has much more on this. why is the cost of natural gas up so high and how does that translate into our electric bills? you see the spike here over the last three years. you see this top point right here where we are. that s because of the war in ukraine partly. we are not buying as much energy from russia. so that eliminates one of the big producers of natural gas and also it s been so hot this summer. so much of the country has been experiencing this extreme heat. this is how it translates. look at these summer bills. in 2021, just on cooling costs, the average household was spending $450. let s jump to this year, 2022, $540. so that is a difference for american households of about $90 just on the cooling costs. and then how is that affecting people? that means 20 million americans are behind on their bills because of this increase. all u.s. households according to a census survey are saying we can t pay our bills right now,
supreme court did to motivate women voters to come out. see, i don t see it as, it s not an either or. you focus only on that issue, don t focus on another, bread and butter issues. you have to marry the two, in order to, you know, kind of present an alternative to what republicans offer. and i think the candidates that do that are actually going to be in a stronger position than ones that just focus on only abortion. i don t think you re gonna see a lot of candidates do. that by think there is a tendency, with an issue like, that because it s so passionate, you know, it causes so much energy, almost to overcorrect, and only focus on that, or speak to that too much. i think you ve got to balance it out. by also speaking to the other kind of economic, if shoes that are impacting americans. we ll see what happens. chris and alice, thank you so much for being with us, we appreciate your time. thank you, john. we re learning more about the classified documents recovered from the fl
but i won t let that happen. the animals depend on me just like any mother or dad. they depend on you. so does this little guy. carley: the other thing i was thinking about, kathleen, is we just came out of a pandemic where you had to shut down. then when things opened back up, you get hit with increased prices. it has been a brutal two and a half years for you, i m sure. it really has, you know for most people when we came out of the pandemic, oh, this is awesome mike this is great, this is what s going to happen. no, now we have this and so more that we have to get over. i m sure when they get this opened in people that liked us will be here and help us out. carley: well, you know, inflation has been impacting americans for over a year now. do you feel like politicians are hearing yours and others for