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Eat or heat?

No more ironing, limited oven use and showering at work—Europeans are trying to keep energy use down but the bills still keep climbing. Costs of energy for British consumers will rise by 80% from October,1． will take the average annual household bills to ￡3, 549. This makes the energy crisis severer than2． of the 1970s and 1980s.

Keetley3． (lose) his job as a council adviser in April and lives on ￡600 a month from a social security scheme. Half of that goes on rent, he said, with the remainder barely covering the 4．   (essential). He now eats one meal a day and although he has reduced energy consumption to a minimum, he spends more than 15% of his income on energy bills. “5． cost of living has increased and yet you are expected to live on the money6． (provide) for when there wasn’t a crisis... I either can have my heating on or eat,” Keetley said.

A household is defined as living in fuel poverty if it is low income and needs to spend 10% or even7．   (much) of its income on energy, according to UK charity National Energy Action and other British charities. Experts agree that despite this 8．   (be) a hard season, Europe will   9．   (undoubted) make it through the winter, but the concern is10． will happen next year.