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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1977-11-10, Page 29Page 12 Bank on cutting fuel overhead with insulation in your attic this winter You can put $250 in the bank and earn for the year compound interest of 6.5 per cent or $17.03 on your money. Or you can invest that same $250 in your attic and earn up to $90 in one year. That's 36 per cent interest or more than five times the bank rate. What's the secret? Insulation. Just six inches of fiber glass insulation. Energy experts at the Home Institute of Cer- tain -teed Products Cor- poration, Valley Forge, Pa., report that homeowners around the country can save up to 30% on their heating and cooling bills, just by having six inches of insulation overhead. In a 1400 -square -foot home, the national average for savings on heating bills is over $60. For cooling bills, it's $35 or more. This as- sumes that the home has some insulation in the at- tic already. For those homes ... and there are some 23 million of them, which have no insulation in the attic, the savings jump to over $100 and $75 or more respec- tively . .. on the average. These heating and cool- ing savings are directly re- lated to the amount of in- sulation in the attic, the severity of the weather in your area, and the style of our home. But, as a rule of thumb, you can expect insulation to pay for it- self in approximately two years if you add insulation to an uninsulated home. Utility bill savings after that are better than mon- ey in the bank. For additional informa- tion on reducing heating and cooling bills, write for the Old Farmer's Almanac Home Insulation Guide. It outlines expected utility savings for homeowners in 115 U.S. cities, and pro- vides homeowner hints for installing attic insulation. Available, free, from the Certain -teed Home Insti- tute, Box 860, Valley Forge, Pa. 19482. The toll summer's sun had taken on the roof and other exposed parts of your house often becomes painfully evi- dent when the sharp winds, snow and ice of winter arrive. The time to forestall costly repairs under adverse condi- tions is to check potential trouble spots before then. Check' for existing or po- tential leaks under and on the outside of tire 'roof and other places where moisture and :old air could enter. Check roof valleys, chim- ney flashing, vent sleeves, eaves, gutters and down spouts. The seals around air conditioners, ventilators, window and door frames, joints and points where pipes enter should also be on your winterizing checklist. 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Come in and check us out Today! tritiETIM 1 HOME CENTRE Highway 21 South Suncoast Mall Goderich 111111 Your amecare BUILDING CENTRE c VISA OPEN MONDAY TO FRIDAY 10 to 9, SATURDAY 10 to 6 1111 �4V ■ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 • Conserve is While this supplement concentrates on energy savings in the home, it is important to put the domestic sector in perspective. The consumption of energy in the form of electrictiy and heating duel in Canadian homes and farms represents about one fifth of the total energy consumption in Canada. Gasoline for private- cars rivatecars represents a further large share of the tran- sportation sector. This means several things. First, saving energy around the home can have significant impacts on the national scene. If everyone cuts his domestic consumption by only 10 per cent through furnace tuning, insulation, • lower temperatures or other measures, the result would be a cutback of about 2 per cent in total national consumption. While this may not seem large in percentage terms, it is actually a tremendous energy and dollar saving for Canada. Second, the other sectors of our economy are also large energy users;" both industry and transportation surpass residential consumption. This means that there is both an opportunity and a respon- sibility for conserving energy in those sectors. Each of us can also contribute by carrying our conservation concerns over to our job. Whether you drive a truck or manage a business, work in an office or a factory, there are numerous tvvays that you can conserve energy each day. Third, as private citizens we consume almost 20 per cent of Canada's energy budget in our homes and over half of the transportation energy in our cars, giving us a total direct consumption of about one third of the total. The other two thirds of Canada's consumption is used to produce the goods and services that we as con- sumers demand. This means that our potential for con- servation is not limited to that one third of the total energy budget that we consume directly. By careful pur- chases, consumer action, recycling and choosing energy-efficient travel modes, we can have an im- pact on that other two thirds. Almost all of us believe to some degree in conservation. For some people, it is a simple matter of saving money; for others, a husbanding of resources now so that we will not find our- selves short in the future. For yet other people, con- servation represents an ideal, a way of life to which we should aspire. Whichever is your' view, there are many sound reasons to support energy conservation as an important new direction for Canadian energy policy. Let us focus briefly on just the most obvious of these. First, there is the sheer physical volume of energy that is being demanded in a world of ever more people, of higher incomes and of more technology. With every in- crease in our rate of ,con- sumption, in Canada as elsewhere, it becomes harder to find, produce and transport the necessary energy materials. For the first time we are in a position where projected future 'demand levels cannot be satisfied by conventional energy sources. Canada will face possible shortages of oil and natural gas within the next decade unless non -conventional or potential frontier resources can be developed and delivered in sufficient quantity. Even future elec- tricity supply is not assured. Feasible hydro sites are now almost totally developed and uranium reserves are limited. Second, even if we could locate " energy resources of suitable quantities and qualities, their costs would be monumental. It has been estimated that to satisfy anticipated demand growth in Canada to 1985 alone, we will have to spend over $100 'billion; that is about per existing household to just supply energy. word today remote sources of energy, it wil cost us more and more energy to obtain energy. That is, since we have to invest not only dollars but also energy units in order to mine coal or tar sands, drill wells, operate pipelines or whatever, the net costs of energy delivered to the consumer will be still higher. The impact of this on our economy will be severe, both in terms of inflation and because it means fewer dollars for schools, hospitals and other industrial projects. In effect, it implies a return to the -situation in which Canadian investment would be concentrated in the resource sectors of the economy. In view of the resource and cost factors, conservation offers a low-cost and low-risk alternative to continued high - demand growth. Third, assuming the resources were available and could be produced at a cost that we were willing to pay, to produce them and then consume them would involve large-scale en- vironmental impacts. - N Obviously to the extent that we conserve energy and defer or cancel energy develop- ment plans, the en- vironmental impact of production and tran- sportation can be avoided. Moreover in almost .every instance sound energy con- servation at the point of use also supports environmental protection. True, in some cases environmental protection techniques seem to require more energy, but in most cases this arises only when such techniques are added on to the end of an existing process. The emission devices on automobiles are good examples of this approach. When more thought is given to the process as a whole, the apparent conflict between energy conservation and environmental protection usually disappears. 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For example, we now have larger, more powerful automobiles, but it takes us just as long to get to work and there are ever more aggravations en route. Our luxurious homes are burgeoning with appliances, our garbage bags burst with waste from the affluent society. But has all this consumption and con- venience brought us closer together or has it alienated us from the natural world and each other? There is sound evidence to think that most indications of quality have begun to turn downward, that they are by Let us help you solve this winter's Home Heating Problems today. We Have: * ALL-WEATHER AUTOMATIC OIL DELIVERY * BP FURNACE FUEL OIL BUDGET PLAN IS AVAILABLE No carrying charges, service charges or interest. Ten equal monthly payments cover your whole season's supply. Page 13 no means as closely related to energy consumption as we once thought. Indeed, it now seems that efforts at moderating our energy consumption - smaller cars, more mass transit, better built houses, less waste production, more personal involvement - will contribute to the quality of life at the same time as they save energy. There are still other reasons to support a serious and continuing effoilt., at energy conservation which cannot be discussed fully here. Energy conservation is likely to require the sub- stitution of labor for capital and will thus account for an Increase in jobs in Canada. By avoiding the need for enormous volumes of im- ports, energy conservation will reduce the dangers of international blackmail and confrontation. And so forth. ' For Dependable Service in Clinton, Goderich, Blyth, Bayfield, Holmesville, Londesboro, Kippen and area.