As I hope you all know, CA is launching shortly the largest home retrofit program in the country. It is funded to do deep retrofits (overall average of 20% savings) of 130,000 homes by end of 2012 (1% of CA homes), and produce at least 15,000 jobs. Not only is the CA program compatible with Home Star but it would benefit greatly by the demand that Home Star would create.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a statement after President Barack Obama outlined more details of a new Home Star program that encourages American families to invest in energy saving home improvements which will also help create jobs. Said Governor Schwarzenegger:
“I am excited about the Home Star program that the President detailed today. Offering incentives to Americans who make their homes more energy efficient will help create jobs and save homeowners money while also helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This is a promising idea, and Democrats and Republicans should work together to enact it into law.”
Our Sate needs a program like this to help Home Owners stay in their hones as well as small contractors stay busy! More homes filled means a better tax base for schools! I would suggest looking at the fact state parks and others have taken TOO MUCH public land off the private tax base grid,this has happened to such a degree as to impoverish Del Norte County & Closing parks deepens the problem( not to mention the threat of getting rid of good green power like dams (instead of dealing w/over population of penipeds & a need for a hatchery down river!
Comment by peter staatz — March 4, 2010 @ 12:29 pm
Spring is right around the corner-it’s a great time to look into all the benefits of clean and renewable geothermal energy-it sure makes a lot of sense to tap into the earth for this super efficient and sustainable answer to our energy problems.
Comment by francis — March 5, 2010 @ 3:18 pm