Energy Consumption and Expenditures by Low-Income Customers

✍ Scribed by Roger D. Colton

• Book ID: 104373829
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 157 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1040-6190
• DOI: 10.1016/s1040-6190(02)00279-8

✦ Synopsis

Energy Consumption and Expenditures by Low-Income Customers

Available federal data indicates that low-income households consume less energy than non-low-income households. The inescapable policy conclusion is that proposals to move a greater proportion of utility bills to ®xed monthly charges are regressive in nature.