I just am not buying 320 hp and 28 mpg. Ain't no way, no how! I wonder how the other poor souls drive your road that don't have big engines and modified suspension. Not sure I'd like to live like that but that's just me!
And by the way, a water heater in the ground wouldn't work as well as an insulated water heater above ground. My basement will stay a nice 60 F if I left it alone. I don't need to cool it in the summer. In fact, I have to heat it with a gas fireplace to take the edge off. Plus, I recirculate the cooler air throughout the house in the summer when we're not watching the big TV system or doing other activities in the basement.
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Originally Posted by willravel
The alternative is to reduce use considerably, something that will be necessary one way or another eventually. What we should be doing is getting jobs closer to home and biking there. What we should be doing is putting refrigerators and water heaters underground and powering them, along with the rest of the house, with 100% solar energy. The government should be giving massive tax breaks to solar companies, so that they can pass on the savings to consumers.
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Good luck with that option. No one is going to reduce. They aren't reducing with the SUVs and large pickups even now with $3.50 gas so what will change?
Government is owned by industry so don't look for those tax breaks any time soon - if ever. Thank you lobby industry.
And I'll have to refer to my nephew. There just ain't enough room for all the solar panels needed. Or wind turbines based on todays generating technology.