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To: Ilaine who wrote (102436)5/15/2001 6:47:50 PM
From: GraceZ  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
Only old houses in California aren't energy efficient. I have a friend who is an environmental engineer in Northern California. He works for a consulting firm where all they do is go around and advise builders on how to comply with all the energy conservation regulations in regards to windows, insulation, roofing materials etc..

Meanwhile, just like here in the East, older houses are grandfathered in so they don't have to comply. Mostly what happened here in the East is that there was a voluntary compliance because the older houses had oil heat and when we went through the oil shocks people updated to more efficient furnaces and updated with replacement windows that have higher R-factors. This stopped when energy prices dropped and now it's starting up again.

I look at the McMansions that popped up around me and think, hmmmmm 7K square feet, cathedral ceilings and an entire wall of windows, not a lot of conserving going on there. Just like with the SUVs it's coming back to haunt people. The truth is people really only conserve when it hits their pocketbook. When a friend of mine first bought an SUV, I asked her what the gas mileage was and she didn't even know. (gas was under a buck back then) Now she knows.
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