C.J. Downey

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• December 17, 1997, on Kitchen Remodeling:

  Take a good look at your heating system. I have a haunting suspicion that your prior owner may have fallen for the 'gas line' during his rebuilding days and switched your building to gas. If so, you may want to rethink that choice. Indoor air pollutants put off by inefficient gas appliances accumulate quickly in heavily insulated New England homes and can cause health problems...or large unexpected conflagrations that roast your chestnuts. Add the equivalent unit costs up between gas and heating oil and you'll find that oil has been consistently lower than gas for more than the last decade--something all the gas proponents are loathe to admit. If you're an environmental nut, you'll also find that this nonsense regarding clean-burning natural gas ignores the fact that Methane is four times more potent a greenhouse gas than the carbon dioxide by-product of heating oil. Ask your utility supplier, Boston Gas, when they intend to plug up all their network pipeline leaks that release up to...