It doesn't require rocket science to reason that increasing costs of energy, that have resulted from increasing regulation and restriction on energy severing and production, injures the elderly, poorest and least able more than any other groups. The cost of energy required for home heating, for example, constitutes a greater percentage of their "disposable" income. Thus the elderly have to make decisions like whether they should buy their high blood pressure medication, or heat their home to a level that will help prevent them getting sick from the cold.
Last winter for example, thousands died in England because they couldn't afford to heat their homes adequately to keep themselves from harm. It's easy to find the headlines like this one from England:
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24,000 'died because of cold homes' last winter: Fears grow that figure could be higher this year because of spiralling bills 'Excess winter deaths' figures were published yesterday with majority of victims over 75
Cold homes are known to exacerbate underlying medical conditions in the elderly"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2240716/24-000-died-cold-homes-winter-Fears-grow-figure-higher-year-spiralling-bills.htmlPerhaps the solution the Marxists will be suggesting to that, is that we steal even more of our children's and their children's futures by going deeper into national debt, to entitle this current generation to free home heating.
The obvious solution of course is incentiving development and production of fuels that would then let the free market bring the costs down. The tired old hippies still engaged in the anti-nuke hysteria is probably the biggest impediment to affordable energy. Good movie on this subject on Netflix is Pandora's Promise done by a couple of former dedicated nuclear opponents, today proponents. Older sensible reads on the subject are Trashing the Planet and Enviornmental Overkill by Dixie Lee Ray.
