Wendy Koch, the environmental blogger for USA Today delivered a whopper yesterday, interviewing the author of book on energy-efficient housing and accepting a contention that better insulated windows could dramatically reduce dependence on oil and gas.
Homes are increasingly being built in the United States to use little or no energy, a trend that could help reduce U.S. dependence on oil and gas, according to a new book.
It could - but that's a big could and how do you quantify "help"? Houses are orders of magnitude more energy-efficient now than they were in the 1950s - but we use more energy than ever. It's a great placement for author David Johnston but let's check back in 10 years to see if we've really reduced our reliance on oil and gas that much.
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