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What truly needs to be done is to make the housing codes stronger so that any new construction has higher R ratings and better design to make the houses more energy efficent.
Then there needs to be a program of some sort that would provide interest free loans to home owners so they can retrofit their homes and make them more energy efficent. The people can pay back their loans from the energy savings.
The upside of this is considerably lower energy consumption across the nation as well as an increase in jobs (someone will have to make the upgrades).
Again, my take on this is this: The same reason we don't have energy efficent homes is the same reason we don't have energy efficent vehicles... fuel costs are too low. If we had to pay the real cost of energy, including all the negative externalities, we would all be in line to buy more efficient vehicles and would demand more energy efficient housing...
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