With climate change becoming an ever-increasing threat, the state of Virginia is beginning to look at the way citizens consume energy. The type of energy households use is an important facet as different forms of energy impacts the environment as well as the economic conditions of an individual.  The purpose of this paper is to find if a correlation exists between the heating methods a household uses and poverty through an examination of literature and US Census Bureau data. An OLS (Ordinary Least Squares) and a GWR (Geographically Weighted Regression) model is preformed and shows a strong correlation exists between kerosene heat and the poverty rate. Given this, GWR provides insight to where the highest rates of poverty exist allowing the state government and public health groups to target areas that are more impoverished.