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[–] 2 points 20 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 19 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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