Source: NewsUSA
(NewsUSA) – Sponsored by GAF – You know it’s cold when it snows in Florida.
Which is exactly how the new year unfortunately began thanks to a “bomb cyclone” that hammered much of the East Coast with heavy snow, howling winds, and temperatures so frigid that Niagara Falls on the Canadian border actually froze.
Meanwhile, Embarrass, Minnesota – yes, that’s really the town’s name – was busy winning the unofficial title of “The Last Place in the Freezing Midwest You’d Want to Go Skinny Dipping,” by hitting a low of 45 degrees below zero on New Year’s Eve.Forty-five degrees. Below. Zero.
While you’re imagining the heating bills in Embarrass and with winter far from over, read on for some tips for lowering your own home energy costs that you may not have thought of.
* Easiest money-saver ever. “Aside from the furnace, a laser printer draws the most standby power in the house at $131.07 watts,” SaveOnEnergy.com reports. And yet, even though that translates into about $131 a year, a new survey found that only 14 percent of respondents unplugged their printers when not using them.
* Pellet stoves aren’t just for environmentalists. ThisOldHouse.com likens them to the family pet — “they require a regular feeding schedule” — but Fido won’t heat a 3,000-square-foot ranch house, say, for perhaps less than $120 a month. And with the weather turning chillier in most places, curling up with a glass of wine in front of one of…
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