Old home: 2x4 walls and R30 ceilings, good windows, heating bill of $60 last month without pulling much through the water heater.
New home: 2x6 walls and R50 ceiling, good windows, heating bill of $30 last month while using a LOT of hot water.
Conclusion; if you want to reduce the use of fossil fuels and related emissions, maybe the best thing to do is to build a home to today's building codes, or refurbish an older one to similar codes.
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True, but the savings would have to be more than $30/mo to justify remodeling costs.
If you're remodeling just for the sake of remodeling and getting a lower heating bill, yes. On the other hand, if the siding is a little long in the tooth and covering the walls with 1/2" foam sheating costs only a few hundred bucks extra.....
....main point, though, is that if we slow down the economy with a carbon tax, we ironically are doing our best to prevent improvements in fuel efficiency.
Exactly.
And about taxing carbon, if you are on that bicycle trying to maximize your CO2 output and heart rate, will you be taxed more? ;)
Will beans be taxed even more?
How about those windbag politicians spewing all that CO2?
Oh my, the endless possibilities.
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