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    <title><![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - energy poverty]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA["Air conditioning is a luxury we can't afford."]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/3c2f5550-0073-42f8-ada1-85f5040c6eda_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Eva's family crunched the numbers and decided to install air conditioning units with heat pumps in the house in Santa Margalida where she, her children, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren live. "It's old and takes a long time to heat up and cool down," she says. Their comfort lasted until their first bill arrived: 384 euros. "It lowered our blood pressure. The impact was very severe. It caused us more headaches than joy. We installed them ourselves, and they had given us one as a gift," she confesses, to justify their investment.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcos Torío]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:15:45 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[An old air conditioning unit on the facade of an old building in Palma.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[28.6% of islanders suffer from energy poverty due to the heat: they cannot afford the bill and their homes are not well insulated. The islands are the community with the eighth highest vulnerable population.]]></subtitle>
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