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text: Latest Post: Started By: Rank: Category Letters To Ed :-)"We've been duped by the Republicans. Kentucky Sen. and minority leader Mitch McConnell in a news conference one day after the election, stated that the single and sole goal of the GOP over the next two years is: to make Barack Obama a single term president. What an arrogant and obnoxious goal and statement. There agenda before the election was to get votes by promising that there first goals were jobs, the economy and health care reform. It seems their goal is to grab power, not to do things for the people that are in need of jobs and or unemployment pay, health care for those that don't have it, and the people losing their homes. This is the same party that wanted the auto plants and their suppliers to go out of business. We are just coming back from what they did to this country, and now we have them back to do the same things to our country again. What a mess the next two years is going to bring to this country. Talk about partisanship." Carl D. Leow Rogers Cit Member Commentsrshill7By the way Normalgore, what you said about Rush and the 13 yr. old is but another big fat lie. Why is that? Is the truth too tough for you to handle? What an idiot slanderer you are. Pig. Posted 660 days ago. rshill7But AB 32 specifically was designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, a 25 percent reduction. The California Air Resources Board was tasked with implementing AB 32. Yet if the NASA report is correct, increasing such gases as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide actually protected the planet from solar rays, reducing temperatures. Despite these recent reports, the global-warming alarmism continues from some quarters." Posted 660 days ago. rshill7"No Global Warming During Last 20 Years; Climate Change Scientists Baffled" "Climate scientists wonder, what's with this 20 years of no global warming?" "Global Warming: Was It Just A Beautiful Dream After All?" "Why enforce AB 32 when new studies show no global warming?" "A new NASA report reveals, "NASA's Langley Research Center has collated data proving that 'greenhouse gases' actually block up to 95 percent of harmful solar rays from reaching our planet, thus reducing the heating impact of the sun." This revelation debunks the greenhouse gas (GHG) theory about pesky carbon dioxide (CO2) trapping heat in the earth's atmosphere, causing the planet to warm. Posted 660 days ago. normanlake...Meanwhile, that great conservative mind, th one and only bloviating blowhard, Rush Limpbo, gets his information on human powered global warming from...drum roll...a 13 year old misinformed lad. This cannot be made up. Posted 660 days ago. normanlakeDenmark has attained a 25% electricity from wind power total. They aim for 50% by 2020. Saving measures, as well as wind turbines will help them achieve this. Germany, Spain and Japan are ahead of the U.S. in solar power. Yes, we need tar sands oil, like another hole in the head. Posted 660 days ago. rshill7Obama Budget To Propose Prohibiting Individuals From Accumulating More Than 3 Million In Retirement Accounts. Posted 661 days ago. normanlakeIt is actually better for a thoughtful human to ignore the ignorant. I have NOT read a post in this forum by the resident phony, rshrill,for a while now and I am better for it, since I have heard every taunt in sixth grade that he can muster. Every third grade mentality name he can call us, every post with a lack of substance, every idiotic untrue statement. Have fun with him guys, I do not have time for nonsense. Posted 662 days ago. rshill7March Unemployment Report: 663,000 Americans Drop Out Of Labor Force. Real unemployment rate 10.8%. America is on life support, while chugging strychnine. Former O' economic adviser Goolsbee says it's a "punch in the gut". I call it a punch in the face and a kick in the crotch. Posted 662 days ago. rshill7If a fish can become a philosopher or a molecule a man, why not? Water pipes aren't nearly as complicated as those rascals. However, we could follow Normonkey's plan with a few well-placed Beavers. Pay 'em union scale, hope they don't strike, and let them****those****lakes. Then open up a top-hat haberdashery with the left over beaver pelts. Are you writing this down? No? Grab a crayon and get crackin'! Posted 662 days ago. rshill7Here's my response to your great lakes water level dissertation: Normensa: Fresh water becomes salt water? Amazing fact there little camper. Did you also know that once a dead animal enters your mouth it becomes food? As it exits your tailbone it then becomes crap. I find it quite interesting that all of these proponents of natural macro-evolution, feel the need to physically manipulate the heck out of everything. Isn't nature your God...or in Normatahari's case, mother? If so, let nature do what it will do. Maybe the salmon and the lakes will evolve into a 3 million dollar fix to the city's water pipes. Posted 662 days ago. rshill7So now, you want to try? Everything about it is a lie. Everything about the sequester charade is a lie too. However, Obama has focused 'like a laser' on jobs...that might explain why he killed so many of them. Lasers have a tendency to do that. Grab some warm milk, put it in a bottle, and do what you do best...suck. Posted 662 days ago. rshill7You have to look at yourself every day, yet I make you sick? Oh well, new hobby for me. Scores of thousands of people are being dropped from their insurance, and prices of existing insurance is sky-rocketing. If you have insurance, you can repeat what I just said to yourself. Every jot, every tittle...everything Obama said about obamacare was a lie, every cotton-pickin' syllable. Apply your rancid warm rain to someone else's leg. Mne's fine as is. Then, go see your doctor if you can find one. Medicare patients are being turned down all across the country. Your side is populated by lying scum, you included. Purposely orchestrating this country's financial collapse, while trying to control every aspect of people's lives. F*ck them and F*ck you. I have been asking folks to list a single true thing Obama said about obamacare when he was selling it, and cramming it down our throats. None of you came up with a single true thing. Din't even try. Posted 662 days ago. HuronHippie"Where have I heard that before? Sounds healthcare-ish doesn't it? In other words, it's just another in a long series of lies." Why is that a lie, moron? You can keep your current insurance and healthcare provider under obamacare. Stop spreading BS, SHRILL. If I'd eaten breakfast I would be hurling after reading some of your posts. You seriously make me sick. Posted 662 days ago. normanlakeI had a great time last weekend, shooting semi automatic weapons, with several shooters of the gun afficianado kind. 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So NJ has a program in place where rebates and special financing are offered if you increase your total energy savings. I had a local HVAC company come out and audit my home and the work the recommended came out to be pretty expensive. It may be spot on, but I have no clue as I�ve never had to purchase HVAC equipment since becoming a homeowner. Does this sound right? All lennox equipment: They also want to blow 6"more insulation into my 1200 sqft attic, air seal my basement, and a few other minor things for an additional 5k. All in all it�s not too bad after the rebate and financing, but I just want to ensure that the company isn�t taking advantage of me and padding their profit with the incentives available. Thanks in advance! |
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- Posted by tigerdunes (My Page) on Tue, Jan 28, 14 at 15:20
I am not comfortable with that quote... Equipment OK, pricing highly frisky! Especially the add-ons. IMO |
- Posted by cindywhitall (My Page) on Tue, Jan 28, 14 at 16:12
I nearly went crazy deciding on that program. I firmly believe my prices were jacked up, but I did get some value out of the rebate. The financing was nice too. My situation required more equipment than most to qualify. You can read my issues here http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/hvac/msg0613455019230.html Watch out its Long as I constantly questioned my own thoughts. System works nicely, though I had humidity issues for at least a month last summer, and some install issues. Bills are lower and it's nice to have new reliable equipment. They tried to talk me into heat pump, but I'm so glad I didn't as I read posts about defrost costs, noise etc. |
- Posted by mentalcase (My Page) on Tue, Jan 28, 14 at 18:29
That definitely was a long post, but a worth while read. The salesman didn't even recommend a heat pump for me saying that a efficient furnace would be fine for my home. I did ask to go with the top of the line variable speed furnace as I hear they condition an extremely comfortable space and are highly efficient. My main reason to dive into the program was the financing. The equipment in my house is nearly 20 years old and while working fine is extremely loud and I'm unsure of it's maintenance. Our bed rooms tend to get very cold which are directly above the unfinished part of our basement. I'm thinking we have a ton of air leakage in the basement which causes them to be drafty. The salesman talked me out of adding a humidifier which surprised me. I have some really sinus issues during the winter when my house get terribly dry (20% RH). He mentioned that with the sealing and insulation that should not fluctuate much. Out of pocket I'd be paying 10k and financing it over 10 years. I'd also save monthly to help off set the cost, but I'm more inclined to go with the program for the piece of mind that I have new equipment and i'm hoping a more comfortable house. How far off do you think the prices are and is there room for negotiation? I am waiting on quotes from other companies for the same work as well. |
HVAC contractors invariably pad their prices if they know rebates and/or tax credits are available. Price appears steep even after rebate although I don't know what the "usual and customary" costs are in your region. Be sure to tell the other dealers up front that you are not eligible for any federal or state rebates or credits. You can claim most of them after the fact without involving the contractor. Most utility company and ALL manufacturer rebates, require "dealer participation"! Getting the picture? |
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- Posted by cindywhitall (My Page) on Tue, Jan 28, 14 at 21:36
I find my house is less dry, our RH is holding in the mid 30's which I think is good for the dry air we've been having. I think last year it was high 30s. We leave front door open for spoiled pup to look out of storm door. I bet lots of dry air sneaks in that way! At least it's lowE glass! I have have carrier so I can't compare prices. I got their mid- hi level. 2-stage both heat and ac, but I thought multi speed and variable speed were the same, so mine is multi speed and not variable, I think variable would have been their Infinity line and they wanted another 1000 or more. I think there can be some negotiating, but they might just offer you different packages and jimmy the price around that way. I got so turned around trying to compare after a while. I had toooo much info and that's why I lost sight of the VS and ended up with multi, so be careful. Plus I was trying to stay under a price. You can try to use the quotes against each other, like buying a car. My saga ran into the fall, so I used buying in the slow season and was able to get them down. You might try that if you can wait for April, but watch the rebate dates. I paid $12k total out of pocket, but got a tankless water heater in the deal too. Love it. Sitting here now in my full steamy garden tub and when son comes home in a minute there will still be loads of water for him. Since my old furnace was 90%, I needed a high high eff water heater to qualify for top rebate. They also told me that with air sealing they have to install direct vent water heater ( or tankless which also direct vent) for safety reasons (CO2) because the regular kind need air to draft correctly and if house is tight it might not draft well. Don't know if that was BS, but I did see it to be the case on some websites. Is your water heater direct (power) vent? Payment is $83. We have savings, but not sure if they really are $83 month! My house is 2850 sq ft. The jan gas bill was $199, not counting the annual credit that is on jan bill for some reason. Old heater was 126k btu at 90% and new is 100k at 96%. How does yours compare? I liked the financing too, and figured even if dealer "stole" the rebates by up-pricing, the 0% alone was a deal.....is it still 10 years at zero? We also jumped as we saw many neighbors with broken down ac. (Same age and model) Sorry if tmi. I get that way, never shut up! |
- Posted by cindywhitall (My Page) on Tue, Jan 28, 14 at 22:11
Quick thing....if your price doesn't include 10 year parts and labor you might want to ask for that at no additional cost as a negotiation. With all the technology I these things I am glad to have it, especially since I am paying for ten years! |
- Posted by mentalcase (My Page) on Tue, Jan 28, 14 at 22:29
TMI is appreciated. I have a tendency to over think and over research so I can understand. I have a much smaller house (1300 sqft) but we do have a half finished basement and heat/cool that as well. The salesman mentioned that we might need a new water heater, but after running a few tests felt we'd be fine. Which BTW I do not want to change. I just had a bradford and white put in when we bought the place 2 years ago. My house is so terribly insulated that we got most of the improvement from that and the furnace. My gas bills are not terrible. During the dead of winter we are around 140-150, but my house fluctuates a bunch so I'm more interested in improving that vs efficiency. The financing is still 10yrs 0% and I think I'm going to wait for a 2 more bids to come through and then decide. With the rebates I sone really have to overthink this one. Thanks for the advice. |
The prices I have seen quoted under the NJ Clean Energy program are very inflated. You will never recover the $5K invested in the insulation and sealing. Get a quote for the HVAC system by someone who is not involved in the program. If you want to improve your insulation get a quote form an insulation company. You don't have to do both at the same time if you don't have the funds. If you need to finance look into a home equity loan. The rates are low and the interest is a tax deduction. |
- Posted by cindywhitall (My Page) on Wed, Jan 29, 14 at 8:44
Excellent point mike, I didn't really pay attention to the 5k for just the insulating and sealing. Way overpriced. I know you probably remember my issues with the program (you were reasonable and helpful,with your replies, thanks btw). That part is where the poster can negotiate and certainly get other ITEMIZED quotes. |
I recently had to make the same decision. My house qalified for the rebates. $5,000 from the NJ and a $10,000 loan at 0% from the gas company. It was no suprise that the quote I recieved was $15,000. So they got my $5000 rebate and I had a $10,000 loan at 0% payable over 10 years. I was told this is a great deal because there is no out of pocket expense to me upfront. What I would get for this is, Hight efficiency AC/Furnace with variable speed blower and a high efficiency water heater. In addition air seal attic (seal up all openings in ceiling arund light fixtures, batroom fans etc, and blow in additional insulation. For now I turned this down. In my eyes the the Ac/Furnace and water heater are worth 9,000-10,000. That means they are getting at least $5,000 to seal and add insulation. Seems real high. If they would do the job for $11,000 - $13,000 Then I could borrow less or get some of that rebate in my pocket I would coinsider it. I think companies are able to over charge for this service since there is no upfront cost to the homeowner. I plan on getting some estimates for added insulation to see if I am correct. |
- Posted by mentalcase (My Page) on Sat, Feb 1, 14 at 0:04
They are definitely padding their quotes due to the rebates, but in the end it would cost me the same. I received a few quotes today for just the equipment side of things and they were all around what I was paying minus the air sealing and insulating. I am going for the best furnace Lennox offers and a fairly decent compressor. In the end I decided to go for it after negotiating a few little things here and there. I'm sure I won't recoup that 5k in insulating and air sealing, but at least I'm going to have new, top of the line equipment with no huge out of pocket expense. I'll take the piece of mind. There is no doubt in my mind that my house needs insulation and the equipment is getting up there in age. Doing this out of pocket would nearly pillage my savings and put me in a rough spot should an emergency occur. Now I'm just bummed about giving up my Nest. Oh well I guess. |
- Posted by chuckfh (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sun, Feb 2, 14 at 9:12
Worried the air conditioning contractors padding pocket? What about homeowners padding their pockets with tax payers money? Same coin different sides. |
You are both right. As a NJ tax payer I am not happy how this program is set up. There have been several posters who have described the systems offered by the contractors. In my opinion they were both over priced and not the best in terms of energy efficiency. The state official who created the rebate rules needs to learn some fundamentals about HVAC. Thanks for letting me vent. :) |
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That day and the next, the FX proved to be a very capable all-weather vehicle, but it's also a car that cossets the driver. The quilted leather seats add to a true sense of luxury, and the abundance of user-friendly electronic devices (navigation, satellite radio, Bluetooth, etc.) means the driver has all the modern conveniences he would expect in car of this price.
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Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The fight is on in Indiana over another Republican attempt to weaken unions amid signs that the party's appetite for war with organized labor isn't matched in other states.
In Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker faces an ouster campaign after pushing restrictions last year on government workers' collective bargaining. Ohio voters repudiated Governor John Kasich's similar curbs on labor in November.
So as Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and Republican lawmakers try to prohibit mandatory union dues in private workplaces, others keep their distance in an election year.
"I don't think it's an appropriate subject for us to be dealing with today," Michigan's Republican Governor Rick Snyder said in a Dec. 12 interview on Detroit radio station WJR.
Snyder, who said in 2010 that he would sign so-called right-to-work legislation, now calls such efforts "divisive."
The battle in Indiana this week resembles last year's fractious session. House of Representatives Democrats, who oppose the right-to-work bill, spent the session's first two days in caucus, effectively preventing the chamber from conducting business. Last year, they fled the state to block labor-law changes.
'Mean Spirited'
"Right to work will only enforce Indiana's negative image as a mean-spirited, backward state," Morton Marcus, an economist and former director of the Indiana Business Research Center, testified today before a committee considering the bill.
Keith Busse, former chief executive officer of Steel Dynamics Inc., a producer in Fort Wayne, told the committee that right-to-work "would be a jobs boon."
With Indianapolis hosting the Super Bowl on Feb. 5, the NFL Players Association issued a news release that called the bill "a political ploy designed to destroy basic workers' rights."
Union membership in the U.S. has been declining for decades. In 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the percentage of unionized workers was 11.9 percent. That's down from 20.1 percent in 1983. In Indiana, 10.9 percent of workers are organized, according to the agency.
Walker's move last year restricting collective-bargaining rights for most public-employee unions triggered weeks of protests in Madison, Wisconsin's capital, and led to recalls of two Republican state senators. Union members are helping the drive that has collected more than a half-million signatures seeking the governor's ouster.
Walker's Misstep
Walker, who was in Washington yesterday speaking to the American Enterprise Institute and raising money to oppose the recall campaign, said he miscalculated how successful unions would be in framing the debate.
"Labor unions can unite and be very effective when they see their fundamental interests threatened," said John C. Green, a political scientist at the University of Akron in Ohio. "And there's a real risk of provoking them in an election year because of their capacity to mobilize voters."
Issues that anger voters may raise turnout and influence other statewide races, Green said. That is especially important in Midwest battleground states that have decided presidential elections, he said.
'Heavy Lift'
In Ohio, a ballot-proposal effort has begun to make it a right-to-work state.
"It's a heavy lift right now," said Chris Littleton, a member of the committee called Ohioans for Workplace Freedom that is organizing the drive. "For some it is a political hot button and a no-no."
Ohio is important for Democratic President Barack Obama, who won it in 2008. Republicans are concentrating on defeating Obama and Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown in November and a right-to-work fight might be a costly distraction, Green said. Kasich's approval rating dropped to 36 percent after the union fight, according to an October poll by Quinnipiac University of Hamden, Connecticut.
In Michigan, considered the birthplace of U.S. organized labor, Republican state Representative Mike Shirkey said he is confident the House will pass a right-to-work bill over Snyder's objections.
"I talked with the governor," Shirkey said in a telephone interview. "He says there's a time and a place for everything. Well, this is the time and this is the place."
"Sometimes it's necessary to do things recognizing there will be unintended consequences that may be uncomfortable," Shirkey said.
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Indiana Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma said he would ignore any pressure to back off from national party leaders eager to recapture the state that Obama won four years ago.
"We're not worried about the next election," Bosma said in a telephone interview. "We're worried about jobs here."
Although 22 states have enacted the ban, none have in the industrial Midwest, according to the National Right-to-Work Legal Defense Foundation Inc., based in Springfield, Virginia.
Oklahoma was the last state to enact a right-to-work law, in 2001. Democrats say the measures lower paychecks for working families.
The average worker in a right-to-work state is paid $30,167 a year, or about $5,333 less than workers in states that don't have the rule, according to U.S. Labor Department data.
The measure in Indiana, which already prohibits collective bargaining by state workers, extends the attacks on public- employee unions last year to private business.
In Wisconsin, public and private sector unions worked together last year in the face of a common threat, said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
"All of this blew up," Franklin said in an interview. "Wisconsin and Ohio demonstrate that you're opening the door to a costly and prolonged political battle. You may win in the end, you may lose in the end, but it will surely be costly to both sides."
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Good product, although the product seems to be "whipped", which leads me to increase the volume needed to complete a massage. I end up mixing a squirt of the Bon Vital with a dollop of a thicker cream to make it last longer. The Austrian Dwarf Pine Oil has a nice, clean aroma.
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