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Black Communities Struggle with Soaring Energy Costs

By The Admin on August 18, 2008

Online Newshour

- Energy and food prices are skyrocketing. Some people are forgoing necessities, simply because they costs too much. Some black communities have been hit particularly hard because residents pay a larger percentage of their incomes on energy costs. Jori Lewis looks at the reasons and how some homeowners are adjusting.

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  • http://www.blackenergy.com/ Sonja Ebron

    Thanks for promoting this important piece. We all need to pay more attention to energy and its role in our lives. I appreciate PBS for covering energy in Black communities (and for including blackEnergy in the report), and I hope the issues get more attention from other mainstream media sources. We talk about nothing else on blackEnergy's blog at http://www.blackenergy.com/amandla. I'm glad I can no longer say: If we don't talk about it, who will?

    Sonja Ebron
    blackEnergy
    http://www.blackenergy.com

  • SonjaEbron

    Thanks for promoting this important piece. We all need to pay more attention to energy and its role in our lives. I appreciate PBS for covering energy in Black communities (and for including blackEnergy in the report), and I hope the issues get more attention from other mainstream media sources. We talk about nothing else on blackEnergy's blog at http://www.blackenergy.com/amandla. I'm glad I can no longer say: If we don't talk about it, who will?

    Sonja Ebron
    blackEnergy
    http://www.blackenergy.com

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