United States. 200,000 homes in this country were air-conditioned since 2009, following the Law for Recovery and Investment, which allocated five billion dollars to help 600,000 low-income families save money on their electricity bills and at the same time, creating more than 13,000 jobs in the industry specialized in energy efficiency.Each home will save on average 350 dollars per year in air conditioning and heating, after making adequate insulation of walls, ceilings, windows and doors, achieving a 32% reduction in energy costs.
Vice President Biden said in a speech in New Hampshire that before the recovery bill boosted housing weatherization efforts, just under a hundred thousand of the nation's 110 million homes were properly insulated.
He also noted that the nation's weatherization initiatives will save 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, which is equivalent to 107,000 fewer cars on highways, a result that is within the goal of the Obama administration, to reduce dependence on the United States. U.S. fossil fuels and foreign oil.
