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U.S. households will pay more to heat their homes this winter, officials say

Nearly half of all
Flared natural gas is burned off at Apache Corporation's operations at the Deadwood natural gas plant in Garden City, Texas, on Feb. 5, 2015.

U.S. households can expect to spend more money to heat their homes this winter compared with last year, federal officials announced.

A released Wednesday by the Energy Information Administration predicts that home heating costs will go up because fuel prices are rising and fuel demand has increased over the previous

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