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Your furnace demonstrates the power of diminishing returns. It'll probably cost more to get from 90% to 95% efficiency, than it cost to get from 45% to 90% efficiency.

There probably is some infrastructure spending that would generate a 60% return. That figure might have been based on past experience, where the only the best projects were cherry-picked. When hundreds of billions of dollars are being thrown around — a lot of those cherries will be old, rotten, worm-eaten things & they will actually reduce the GDP.

[aruanan]

Obama Orders Costly Energy Standards on Appliances

Who the hell does he think he is? If he wants something like this, let him talk to someone in the House and have them introduce legislation that can be discussed and voted on. Oh wait, Barry wants to be a dictator.

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I would venture that a move from 90 to 91 would be that costly.

Enviros live in a fantasy world. The ones I know are DINKS with a lot of disposable income or homosexual w/o kids. It is a rich man’s toy and helps him soothe the guilt over a life of conspicuious consumption. LOOK I am GREEN.

In my town all our recyclables are dumped, along with all the garbage and re-sorted. All the home sorting does nothing, but it does save a little on garbage bags.