This is a bad year to put off getting protected from the annual flu.
Yet the proposed standards wouldn’t have barred anyone from buying or using gas-fired appliances . Instead, they would have required builders to make sure that new construction is designed to handle both types rather than locking those buildings in to the energy source that we must leave behind. It will be more expensive in future years to retrofit these new buildings than it is to ready them now.
Making buildings more energy-efficient saves consumers money in the long run. And designing new buildings to be ready for renewable power sources, while fractionally more expensive upfront, costs much less than it will cost to go back in a few years and retrofit the buildings.The daily smog of the presidential campaign can make it easy to lose sight of the dangers of not taking significant steps to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
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opinion 2.4 million people lost power due to the sun setting during a heat wave. The electric grid is almost 100 years old, no way it can handle electric cars and homes.