Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, You need to do some serious cost/benefit analysis on you heating bills. Unless you live in 10,000 sq ft you can substantially decrease your costs by doing some of the things that Daniel mentioned. My climate in Atlanta is a little more moderate than yours but my gas bills were substantially smaller than yours. Double pane windows, serious draft control, a very high efficiency furnace on the first floor and a heat pump on the second floor. Seriously lower the thermostat and add local heating to those rooms that you mostly occupy so that the ambient temperature in the whole of the house is 65F and the local area possibly 72. I think my bill for the whole winter was about $475. The reason gas prices have gone through the roof is because the only power plants built in the U.S. over the last ten years have been gas turbines. If you think that your gas consumption is high imagine what a 50 MW generator complex chews through. Thank our friends in the environmental arena, the NIMBY folk, and the regulatory beaurocrats for those decisions. We have coal, we know how to build plants that are clean except for CO2 but instead we take the best fuel for point source heating and use it for a power plant. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 4/27/06, Marc James Small <msmall@aya.yale.edu> wrote: > > At 10:03 PM 4/26/06 -0600, GREG LORENZO wrote: > >Marc James Small writes in part > > > >> > >> I'd slap a $5 a gallon tax on gasoline imported from outside the > >> US, open ANWR, and start pumping natural gas from the Florida coastal > >> waters. > > > >Mark, > > > >How is additional natural gas going to help this situation? > > You must live in Florida. Natural gas is the most common means of heating > homes in the US, and the prices for this have almost doubled over the past > two years. Our local gas company no longer cuts off delinquent accounts, > so frequent are the defaults due to inability to pay. I just paid out > $1,500 for two months at my house and $400 for two months at my office. > That is a LOT bigger a kick in the pants to a lot of us than is $3 a > gallon > gas. > > Marc > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >