New Year’s Resolution: Put Your Home on an ‘Energy Diet’ Suggests Alliance to Save Energy.

As part of the yearly New Year’s resolution-making ritual, the Alliance to Save Energy encourages consumers to check out their home’s physical fitness and, depending on its overall state of health,
put it on an “energy diet.”

The “physical fitness” of your home can make the difference between soaring energy bills or comfortable savings this winter.
By cutting wasteful energy use, an energy-efficient home is a strong defense against winter
winds, rain, sleet, snow, and chill while also reducing air pollution and greenhouse gas
emissions and increasing national security.

And Uncle Sam is offering another incentive for putting your home on an energy diet:
A 30 percent tax credit – a dollar-for-dollar reduction in your income taxes owed – of up to $1,500 during the remainder of 2009 and throughout 2010 for specific energy efficiency home improve-
ments. Details on qualifying products, including insulation and sealing products, highly efficient furnaces, heat pumps, and windows, are available at www.ase.org/taxcredits.

The Alliance offers consumers step-by-step home physical fitness tips to cut energy bills and
increase comfort.
Is Your Home Leaking Energy Dollars? Improve How You Care for and Heat Your Home.
Another Major Tip: replacing or purchasing energy-using and energy-related products.

Read more about it HERE.