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New Year's Resolution: Put Your Home on an 'Energy Diet' Suggests Alliance to Save Energy
December 28, 2009We've all been there on making well-intentioned New Year's resolutions, among them promising faithfully to go on a diet, exercise and eat healthier. And sometimes, we may even keep those resolutions for a little while before falling off the wagon. As part of the yearly New Year's resolution-making ritual, the Alliance to Save Energy encourages consumers to check out their home's physical fitness and, depending on its overall state of health, put it on an "energy diet." How is your Home's "Physical Fitness?" The "physical fitness" of your home can make the difference between soaring energy bills or comfortable savings this winter. By cutting wasteful energy use, an energy-efficient home is a strong defense against winter winds, rain, sleet, snow, and chill while also reducing air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and increasing national security. And Uncle Sam is offering another incentive for putting your home on an energy diet: A 30 percent tax credit - a dollar-for-dollar reduction in your income taxes owed - of up to $1,500 during the remainder of 2009 and throughout 2010 for specific energy efficiency home improvements. Details on qualifying products, including insulation and sealing products, highly efficient furnaces, heat pumps, and windows, are available at www.ase.org/taxcredits. Full release.