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[–] 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I'm really happy you were able to make the jump! I'm really worried about a whole bunch of my distant neighbors this year. Prices continue to climb, wages (and employment) continue to fall. Its good to hear you dodged this particular bullet. Were you able to take advantage of any of the tax breaks or incentives from your utility provider to pay for part of your upgraded HVAC before the current administration yanked them?

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago* (1 child)

    I'm also very worried, as my neighborhood still has a lot of people using oil furnaces, primarily those on fixed incomes. Their situation is pretty dire, to put it lightly.

    I was able to, yeah. It definitely helped me afford it. It's really sad that they got rid of it, basically ensuring that some people will be living in cold homes at some point this year. Those credits were good for everyone except for the oil companies: heat pumps help save on power bills (being one of the few > 100% efficient heating methods), they can reduce electrical grid stress if people move to heat pumps from resistive heating, and they help reduce pollution. It's just another way this administration and the oil companies are hurting everyone.

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  • [–] 1 point 18 hours ago

    I was able to take advantage of the tax credit too to help pay for my heat pump. It allowed us to completely turn off natural gas service at our house which saves us hundreds of dollars a year for our situation.

    The discontinuation of the tax credit for energy efficient homes is particularly bad because these type of programs typically gain more adoption the longer they go on as more people are made aware of them. There are likely people only today discovering these programs existed after they were discontinued by trump very early.

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