Why build an energy-efficient
house? After all, energy prices have
been stable for the past five years, so
public interest in energy conservation
has dropped off. American consumers
are demanding bigger houses and
faster cars again. Why should you, as a
builder, go to the effort of building
homes that use less oil, gas, and electricity?
According to atmospheric scientists,
the best reason to build energy-efficient
houses is to forestall a global
warming trend. Though fossil fuels
have long been implicated in environmental
problems from smog and acid
rain to oil spills and strip mining, they
are now believed to be the primary
culprit in a potentially much more farreaching
and destructive problem:
global warming. Experts have been
warning us