Electric Appliance Calculator for Homes (Wisconsin Public Service Corporation)

Estimating your energy usage by appliance is now easy with this online calculator published by Wisconsin Public Service.com. ("Thank you and good night, Wisconsin!")

I got a heater for Christmas and someone asked me how I would know if it was the same or cheaper than using the heat to heat my home... Well 5 hours of the heater is about $23 a month. The oil heat is about 450 for every 2-3 cold winter months. I used half a tank of oil from mid October to end December. That's 225 I think, and divide by 2.5 and that's $90 per month. If my estimations are near correct then we have an answer! (Rationale: The heater only heats one room where the oil heats all of them.)

Thanks to a woman in Connecticut for this link:

Electric Appliance Calculator for Homes (Wisconsin Public Service Corporation): "Average Home Energy Use

Knowing that your bill varies for a number of reasons helps you understand the 'why' of increased energy use. But it doesn't give you the 'how'of managing your costs. The chart to the right shows how we use energy in our homes. Managing your use of these items will have the greatest impact on your bill."

DRS: Exemptions from Sales and Use Taxes

Hybrid Cars Exempt from Sales Tax in CT Until 10-2008

DRS: Exemptions from Sales and Use Taxes: "Hybrid Technology Passenger Vehicles: Effective on or after October 1, 2004 and prior to October 1, 2008, the sale or lease of any hybrid passenger car that has a United States Environmental Protection Agency estimated highway gasoline mileage rating of at least forty miles per gallon.

For purposes of this subdivision, 'hybrid passenger car' means a passenger car that draws acceleration energy from two onboard sources of stored energy, which are both an internal combustion or heat engine using combustible fuel and a rechargeable energy storage system and, for a passenger car or light truck with a model year of 2004 or later, is certified to meet or exceed the tier II bin 5 low emission vehicle classification.
The exemption applies to the purchase or lease of a new or used qualifying motor vehicle from a motor vehicle dealer and to the purchase of a used qualifying motor vehicle directly from its owner. Conn. Gen. Stat. ?12-412(115), as amended by PA 06-161, Section 5. "

GM - GMability Safety: Three Years Running: Saab 9-3 Sedan Earns IIHS 2007 Top Honors

GM - GMability Safety: Three Years Running: Saab 9-3 Sedan Earns IIHS 2007 Top Honors: "Three Years Running: Saab 9-3 Sedan Earns IIHS 2007 Top Honors

DETROIT (Nov. 21, 2006) — The Saab 9-3 Sedan has earned the 2007 Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Top Safety Pick Award in the midsize car category. This is the third consecutive year that the 9-3 Sedan has driven away from this competition with top honors. For 2006 the 9-3 earned the Top Safety Pick – Gold Award and received a Double Best Pick crash test rating for 2005. The 2007 Saab 9-3 Sedan was awarded the designation amid toughening criteria."

BuddhaNet Magazine Article: Book Review: Putting Buddhism to Work by Senaka Weeraratna

BuddhaNet Magazine Article: Book Review: Putting Buddhism to Work by Senaka Weeraratna: "The Essence of Buddhist Economics

Inoue identifies three key phrases that underlie his model of Buddhist Economics.

They are:

1) an economics that benefits oneself and others
2) an economics of tolerance and peace
3) an economics that can save the earth."