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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shakran
Under the program, you can get a free energy audit of your house. The audit will give you a list of things to do to achieve a 10 percent energy use reduction, and to achieve a 20 percent energy use reduction. If you follow the 10% prescription, you get $1,000. Follow the 20%, you get $2,000. And if the 20% reduction recommendations that you followed actually achieve a 20% energy use reduction, they'll give you an extra grand. Further, you get $1,000 for every 5% reduction you pull off beyond the 20%, up to half of the cost of retrofitting the building.
After doing all that, if you decide to take steps to reduce your water use as well through more efficient appliances (like showers and toilets) you will get up to $1,200 to help you with that.
You are not required to do any of this, but if you do, you'll get some cash to help you out.
Not quite as scary as Hannity would have you believe, is it?
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No it's still scary, that money isn't free, it has to come from somewhere.
I live in a building built in the 50's, and many of the Northeast homes are older. Costs and possibility to retrofit are next to impossible for some of us.
I don't like the idea "$25 billion, the aggregate amount of loans Department of Energy is authorized to make to automobile manufacturers and component suppliers" is something that should be shouldered by the taxpayers. The industry should support their own R&D.
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