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TheFreakOut: Button It Up, A Confession

Posted on October 08, 2008

by Heather RaeHere in Maine, politicos making hay of rising (and now dipping fuel) costs are calling for troops of weatherization crews to be unleashed into the homes of the state's neediest residents. This initiative is not low-income weatherization which services the poorest, but an attempt to button up the homes of the next economic tier. These troops of state-trained energy auditors will be armed with state-subsidized air infiltration measurement devices ( blower-doors ) and infrared cameras.Political jockeying of a prominent state financing organization over the training and oversight...

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