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The insulation option is costly, but a great deal of the cost is labour, in other words, a programme of house insulation to reduce energy consumption = a lot of jobs over quite a long period.

The real lesson of that game, anyway, is that electricity isn't going to be cheap.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Apr 2nd, 2006 at 04:24:56 PM EST
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The cost of actually building all British houses to a reasonable standard of insulation would probably increase housing prices substantially, too. But it would save everyone a bunch in gas and electricity.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Apr 2nd, 2006 at 04:27:06 PM EST
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