{"id":3261,"date":"2026-03-25T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:00:09","slug":"trumps-broken-promises-energy-and-utility-bills-surge-as-families-struggle-to-keep-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3261","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Broken Promises: Energy and Utility Bills Surge as Families Struggle to Keep Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump promised<\/a> to cut energy prices in half within his first year in office. He has done the exact opposite. Electricity prices<\/a> rose nearly 7% last year, with the typical household paying $123<\/a> more for electricity in 2025 alone. Now, Trump\u2019s disastrous Iran war has blocked one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil supply, causing gasoline<\/a> to rise by over a dollar this month to nearly $4 a gallon as diesel nears<\/a> all-time highs. Those price increases come on top of heightened AI data center demand, which has driven utilities to file for record rate increases<\/a>. A new fact sheet<\/a> from Groundwork Collaborative captures the devastating impact on American households and who they blame.<\/p>\n

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More than 66%<\/a> of Americans say their electricity bills have increased over the past year, while just 5% report any decrease. The burden is falling hardest on working families, with lower-income households spending nearly six times more of their income on energy than the wealthiest families. Meanwhile, one in five<\/a> Americans could not afford their energy bills in 2025, and one in three<\/a> reported cutting back on food or medicine just to keep the lights on.<\/p>\n

Groundwork\u2019s brief explores what Americans think is driving these cost increases and what policies they want decisionmakers to pursue. Nearly half<\/a> of voters (47%) say tariffs are raising their utility bills, and 65%<\/a> believe the rapid expansion of AI data centers will push electricity costs even higher. A new poll<\/a> from Groundwork and Data for Progress finds that a majority of voters (52%) would rather end the Iran war than take temporary half measures to somewhat lower the price of gas, like tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and pausing the federal gas tax.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> <\/strong>to read the full fact sheet from Groundwork Collaborative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump promised to cut energy prices in half within his first year in office. He has done the exact opposite. Electricity prices rose nearly 7% last year, with the typical household paying $123 more for electricity in 2025 alone. Now, Trump\u2019s disastrous Iran war has blocked one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil supply, causing gasoline […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}