silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agoHere’s How Much Cleaner Energy Could Save America, in Lives and Money | Widespread adoption of heat pumps could prevent thousands of premature deaths and save billions on energy billswww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down10cross-posted to: climate@slrpnk.net
arrow-up1155arrow-down1external-linkHere’s How Much Cleaner Energy Could Save America, in Lives and Money | Widespread adoption of heat pumps could prevent thousands of premature deaths and save billions on energy billswww.nytimes.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agomessage-square23fedilinkcross-posted to: climate@slrpnk.net
minus-squareCurious Canid@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·17 days agoThe big problem is that those billions of dollars in savings would cost billions of dollars in profits for energy companies. As long as Citizens United remains in place, we are unlikely to see any legislation to encourage people to switch.
minus-squareJazsta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·17 days agoThere are plenty of incentives encouraging people to switch, many coming from the inflation reduction act
minus-squareCurious Canid@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·16 days agoMy concern is that I expect those incentives to be removed very quickly under the next administration.
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-216 days agoSeriously. I expected to be replacing my gas furnace with heat pump in the next few years, but now I have to figure out if I can or should do it asap
The big problem is that those billions of dollars in savings would cost billions of dollars in profits for energy companies. As long as Citizens United remains in place, we are unlikely to see any legislation to encourage people to switch.
There are plenty of incentives encouraging people to switch, many coming from the inflation reduction act
My concern is that I expect those incentives to be removed very quickly under the next administration.
Seriously. I expected to be replacing my gas furnace with heat pump in the next few years, but now I have to figure out if I can or should do it asap
Time to kiss all that goodbye