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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (126740)	12/9/2009 1:44:29 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541016

Were you going to buy a new one last spring B4 the credit? Maybe. If not that year, then the next. We had been talking about doing quite a bit of refurbishing in terms of appliances in the kitchen, hot water heater, furnace, etc. Everything was around 25 years old and we knew cooler looking, more energy efficient appliances were out there. You are in the minority in this country. There are lots of folks who haven't even been able to afford to keep theirs burning. You should walk a mile or 2 in their shoes. Most of them have very little furniture to burn. That's my point. We didn't need a subsidy to buy a furnace. Maybe the energy tax credit should have been means tested, leaving more money to go to those folks "burning their furniture" to stay warm. I will say, however, that I don't have a huge problem with the program as it was. We're both surprised at how much of a difference this new furnace seems to making on the heating bills. Can't tell for sure until a whole winter goes by, but it looks like quite an energy savings is shaping up. To get the credit, only the most energy efficient, variable speed furnaces qualified.