It is also worth noting that energy costs comprise 8% to the overall weight of CPI. Housing costs carry a much bigger weight of 33%. Therefore once energy prices show a stable trend, which they are bound to unless there is another plunge to $25 to $30 per barrel of oil (very unlikely), then housing costs will begin to exert a significant influence on overall inflation. It is just as likely for oil prices, being inherently volatile, to shoot up measurably. That would be extra fuel for rising inflation, no pun intended. For those with an automatic cost-of-living-adjustment, a comfortable 3% change is in the cards for 2017, after consumers experience these rising costs changes in 2016. For those without an automatic cost-of-living adjustment, cross your fingers for a strengthening economy to help boost wages.