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Savings Experiment: Cooling Your Home for Less
9:00AM 8/06/2011
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How to Get Rewards for Paying Your Electric Bill -- and Avoid Fees
9:05AM 8/05/2011
Energy, Economizer, Family Money, Saving Money, Credit Cards
It's summer, a season of warm days and scary air-conditioning bills. Want to pay your bills with plastic so you can get reward points? Well, the credit-card fees utilities charge could change your mind. SmartCharge offers some customers a way to avoid those fees.
If you've had your eye on the housing market lately, you know two things for sure:
1) The construction industry has been hard hit over the last few years, leaving many contractors out of work. And ...
2) ... So have home values, leaving many homeowners upside down in their homes (i.e., owing more...
U.S. Manufacturing Output Rises 0.5%, the Most Since July
11:15AM 11/16/2010
The nation%u2019s manufacturing recovery accelerated in October as factory output jumped 0.5%, the Federal Reserve said. Overall industrial output was flat in the month, but the typical autumn plunge in utilities output skewed the top-line stat lower.
5 big household expenses you can easily cut
12:00PM 10/20/2010
The little everyday expenses in life -- coffee and snacks -- can quickly add up but so do the big costs. So while cutting out that daily latte may help your day-to-day expenses, cutting the cable service or a telephone line can mean hundreds or even thousands of dollars in savings.
Granted, it...
Savings Experiment: Cooling your home for less is a breeze
3:20PM 7/27/2010
When summers get as hot as this one, it's difficult to imagine what people did before air conditioning existed. Swimming holes, hand-held fans and ice cubes down your back will only go so far when sooner or later, you have to return to the confines of some stifling domicile that badly...
As severe heat grips most of the East, sales in the ice cream, air conditioner, pools, seashore-related and bowling center segments have spiked with the temperature. The solid sales are welcome relief for industries burned by the recession.
Even as homebuilding remains in the doldrums, a booming replacement business for air conditioning systems and a new venture with Carrier are giving Watsco a boost. Now in the high $50s, it could return to its all-time high of $73 within a year.
The average U.S. household will spend about $2,160 this year on home energy, which is $60 less than in 2009, according to the Alliance to Save Energy.
While the drop is good news, $2,160 is still a lot of money to spend on gas and electricity, and it can be cut by up to 30% by using efficient...
When air-conditioning actually gets you better gas mileage
4:07PM 8/12/2008
When I was learning how to drive, I was taught that air-conditioning was this enormous drag on gas mileage. I might as well be towing around an anvil behind the car. If I wanted better gas mileage I had to use the wind from the window.Now it turns out that's not quite right. An air conditioner can...
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