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High Demand for Appliance Rebates Show That More Programs Are Needed

Posted in Efficiency, Energy, tagged appliance rebate program, efficient appliances, Energy Efficiency, Public Citizen, public utility commiss, PUC, rebates, Texas, Tom "Smitty" Smith on April 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith, Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office Today Texans proved that there is a very high demand for energy-efficient products and services when they made reservations for $23 million worth of appliance rebates in just eight hours, using up rebates in the first day they became available. This goes to show how [...]

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Climatology vs Meteorology

Posted in Global Warming, tagged anthropogenic, climate change, climatologist, climatology, colbert, debate, denial, denier, Global Warming, man made, meteorologist, meteorology on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The words sound similar, but are they? Here are the definitions from Webster: Climatology: the science that deals with climates and their phenomena Meteorology: a science that deals with the atmosphere and its phenomena and especially with weather and weather forecasting So even their definitions seem similar, at least on the surface. But as Stephen [...]

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Today is the day to reserve your Texas Trade Up Appliance rebate!

Posted in Efficiency, Energy, tagged comptroller's office, Energy Efficiency, rebate reservations, texas powerful smart, texas trade up appliance rebate program, Twitter on April 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »

UPDATE on the UPDATE: All gone! According to the Austin American Statesman, all appliance rebate money has been reserved. Hope you made it in! UPDATE: Apparently the program got such a high volume of interest, they were having some problems with their website today! Go figure. Here’s an update, looks like there is still plenty [...]

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