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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Refiting is only an expense, someone is making and someone is losing.
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One would hope that ultimately the real losers would be foreign energy producers. We would no longer need to buy their product, and all the money we would have given them stays at home -- stimulating the economy and perhaps paying for even more energy efficiency and, ultimately, an economy that costs less and less to run with a greater benefit for more and more people.
Remember, retrofitting in this way is not an expense; it is an economization. It cuts base operating costs, while directing remaining costs more towards labor-intensive activities and away from simple purchase of raw materials that somebody pumped out of the ground.