Hybrid Houses

This could be the year that skyrocketing heating prices, plus incentives, really push efficient homes.

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January 12, 2006, 1:00 PM PST

"According to Department of Energy (DOE) estimates, Midwesterners can expect to see natural gas prices rise by an average $350 this season. In the Northeast, which heats mostly with oil, expect a $270 hike.

...States are scrambling to help low- and even middle-income Americans pay these bills, and Washington just released an additional $100 million in aid. In the longterm though, it's not subsidies that help, but incentives - government and market - to build more energy efficient homes, and retrofit existing ones."

FULL STORY: Going 'hybrid' with houses

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 in The Christian Science Monitor

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