Children, forward to the Glorious Green Future!

Spiked ^ | August 12, 2008 | Lee Jones

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

HA HA HA HA HA....

[Little Ray]

If my daughters tried this sort of thing, I wouldn’t turn “green” but I might turn their behinds red...

[SShultz460]

Sig Material there

[dfwright]

He said he bought a gas/electric HVAC, and he apparently has done his homework on the monetary savings associated with doing so.

Unless I missed it, he didn't seem concerned over environmental impact, just his pocket book. Perhaps he's not a fool after all?

[Uncle Miltie]

Dude:

HVAC = Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning.

I promise not to drive my furnace anywhere.

:-)

[Uncle Miltie]

I don’t much care about “pollution” per se. I’m an economist (see nom de post). The cash flow analysis just plain works.

The builder of my house put in a horrible Natural Gas system. He also didn’t seal the vents well. So, I can get a better hybrid Gas / Electric system, seal my vents, etc. and get a good payback.

Here in the Pacific NorthWest, we have cheap electricity and expensive Natural Gas. With a hybrid system, I can heat with cheap electricity through a heat pump when that is more efficient based on outside temperatures and cost / KWH, and through a gas furnace when that is more efficient. A chip in the system will decide to switch between fuel sources depending on the relative cost.

Compared to my crappy system, I can cut my HVAC costs about in half. As pointed out in my original post, the economics pencil: It is a better investment (at 18% “ROI”) than my other opportunities (stocks).

I’ll take deals like that all day long.

[Uncle Miltie]

"Besides, CO2 is not a pollutant, and does not cause global warming. If gas is too expensive, burn wood."

Wood Soot is a pollutant. Here in Southern Oregon, the California wildfires prove that daily!

;-)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

nag, pester, bug, torment and punish the people who are merrily wrecking [their] world’,

Unless the kid likes eating cold oatmeal (sans milk, salt and sugar) for breakfast, lunch and dinner, sleeping on the bare living room floor, reading the Bible for recreation and only having one set of clothes I would not advise this.

Not to mention LOTs of chores.

[Slings and Arrows]

I like your notions of parenthood.