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[sraun]

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Comments

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

The energy efficiency people around here want folks to get rid of inefficient stuff (incandescents, old fridges, electric HW heaters) etc when they get more efficient stuff.

I wonder if this is a good policy. If one puts the old stuff back into circulation cheaply, it will reduce the market for new inefficient stuff. That is what we want to accomplish. I think.

[sraun]

There are several ways to reduce the market for new inefficient stuff.

Your 'keep the old stuff in circulation' is one.
Another is to get the efficient stuff cheap enough that they're first choice - which means they have to be no more than very little more than the inefficient stuff.
A third is government regulation. I wonder if there are any statistics on the effect of the EnergyStar efficiency labeling requirements?

Realistically, it's going to be price that drives the inefficient stuff away. Which means that the efficient stuff has to get cheaper.