Snazzier houses bring energy crisis home to middle class
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Homes are increasingly filled with refrigerators, plasma TV sets, and lap pools that drive up energy costs.
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Consumers are being urged to implement more energy saving moves in the fight against global warming.
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The experts are calling for energy reforms. Why aren't the politicians?
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RIVERVIEW, Fla., Jan. 25 -- Piece by piece, as the economy has faltered and as the subprime mortgage crisis has taken hold, Ivan Toledo's grasp on his job, his house -- his entire middle-class life -- has come undone.
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Record-setting natural gas and oil prices are teaming up to create a winter of discontent for many households. With crude oil breaking $50 a barrel and continuing to climb, it is time to consider how to offset
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WASHINGTON - As if $2 a gallon gasoline hasn't been bad enough, people now should be bracing for sharply higher heating bills this winter whether they use oil or natural gas to warm their homes.    A looming winter energy crisis, while unlikely to grab hold before the Nov...
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New Yorkers pride themselves on their ability to handle almost anything: Blackouts. Sweltering subway stations. Obscenely small apartments at ridiculously high costs.
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With oil prices rising people are turning to wood heat, raising concerns about the environmental impact of some older devices that are being used.
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People who heat their homes with oil, electricity or propane Â almost half the country Â are likely to see prices rise.
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A low-cost concept that began as an effort to provide affordable homes to victims of Hurricane Katrina is now being seized upon as an alternative for Americans looking for a vacation home or to downsize their current living space.
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Growing numbers of people are being squeezed out of the housing market, researchers have concluded.
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Renae Gorney sees the human side of the slumping U.S. housing market, the people whose homes are part of the $1 trillion worth of unconventional mortgages that are about to get more expensive.
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A homeowner could save as much as $250 on heating bills over last year.
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Studies have shown that suburbanites use more energy and produce more carbon dioxide than city-dwellers.
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Most people in the United States only think about where electricity comes from when the lights go out suddenly.
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This energy powerhouse looks cheap, despite recent setbacks.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Power outages are a common occurrence in Kabwata, a poor neighborhood in the capital of this Southern African nation, where residents spend many of their evenings by candlelight, cooking with charcoal.