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New Bush Administration Furnace Standards do Nothing
Minimum AFUE for gas furnaces raised from 78% to 80% in 2015.
Minimum AFUE for oil furnaces raised from 78% to 82% in 2015..
Most furnaces already exceed these standards, many (about 1/3rd) are 90+% AFUE.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/19/AR200711...
Best Hopes for Intelligent consumers and state efficiency standards,
Alan
Watching Bush play at President is a lot like watching a tractor-mounted post hole digger. Spin, spin, spin and all that we get is a deeper hole.
Sometime you hit some big rock and it stops, or you run outta digging tool.
But stop the hole digging does.
Imaging what it would be like if the world was under adult supervision, notably the White House
Homo Semi-Sapiens
Heh. That would be great!
"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."
Albert Einstein
I guess he's waiting for new and better technology. Oh, I guess you pointed out it's already here. Better technology doesn't do a whole lot if you can't get people to use it.
Alan,
There is a faction in this country that thinks energy conservation is un-American, a threat to the status quo, starting with Dick Cheney. Did you really expect at this late stage the Bush administration would bite the hand that feeds it.