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Maine families choose between food and heat
Heating oil prices surge across Maine, forcing residents to make impossible choices between basic necessities.
In brief
Heating oil prices surge across Maine, forcing residents to make impossible choices between basic necessities. Heating oil prices have skyrocketed in Maine, which depends on heating oil more than any other state, forcing residents to choose between food and heat. Originally reported by CBS News.
Oil prices surge across Maine
Heating oil prices are skyrocketing in Maine, along with diesel and gas. No state depends on heating oil more than Maine does.
Residents face impossible choices
Maine residents are now forced to make tough decisions about whether to buy food or pay for heat as prices climb.
CBS News reports from Maine
Meg Oliver spoke with residents in Maine about how rising heating oil prices are affecting their daily lives and financial decisions.
The short version
Heating oil prices have skyrocketed in Maine, which depends on heating oil more than any other state, forcing residents to choose between food and heat.
