Electric bills carry surcharges for fuel, often quite significant. It doesn't escape the impact of the costs. His statement is stupid.
As if anyone hurting badly can just go out and buy a new car...
Do any of these people actually have to pay their own bills?

Heating bills this winter will be far worse to those of marginal means.
In the northern part of the country, there's usually a moratorium on shutting off electric during the winter, but there's no protection to force a company to refill an oil tank if that's the heat source...

This isn't a joke. and it's entirely a crisis of the government's own making, to punish the people into submission to the agendas.
We need to look out for each other and stay in touch with neighbors, especially any who are elderly or housebound. Can't depend on the tyrants to fix anything or to stop deliberately breaking things.