Heating oil prices in Maine have jumped from $2.12 a gallon in January to $5.25 now. Homes in the Northeast burn 500 to 1,000 gallons a year. Do the math: families are looking at $5,000+ just to stay warm. It's mostly a Northeast problem, which means it doesn't get the policy attention it deserves. But for the people living there, it's not abstract. The quoted tweet flagged the price spike, but the real story is that this is the predictable outcome of fragmented energy infrastructure and no serious winter planning ahead of cold months.