HELP LOWER THE COST OF GOING GREEN!

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Want to go green but aren't a millionaire? Having recently priced solar, reclaimed flooring and the like, I'm shocked at how expensive it can be to go green. No wonder more people aren't doing it. Who can afford it?

A typical solar system in NoVA runs about 100,000 while the federal rebate is only a couple thousand tops! Some states, like VA don%u2019t offer ANY incentives.

Reclaimed wood flooring runs about ~$8.00/sq ft, uninstalled while the %u2018bad%u2019 stuff at major building supply centers is under $5.00/sq ft.

Want health and beauty products that you don%u2019t have to take out a small loan to pay for? Good luck. For example, a low toxin shampoo in the cosmeticsdatabase.com database is ~$20 for 8oz! Outrageous!

Something needs to be done to help the average person afford green products. Government offsets need to be more until the demand gets where it needs to be to bring prices down for green building products, solar, wind, and non-toxic health and beauty products.

A typical solar system in NoVA runs about 100,000 while the federal rebate is only a couple thousand tops! Some states, like VA don%u2019t offer ANY incentives.

Reclaimed wood flooring runs about ~$8.00/sq ft, uninstalled while the %u2018bad%u2019 stuff at major building supply centers is under $5.00/sq ft.

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# 105:

3:26 am PDT, Sep 20, Simos Tarabatzis, Greece

# 104:

9:14 pm PDT, Sep 15, BRANDON CATHERS, Michigan

# 103:

9:51 am PDT, Sep 13, Jamie Scott, Texas

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8:48 pm PDT, Aug 18, Angela Jasper, Texas

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8:16 am PDT, Jul 31, Andi Alnwick, New York

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8:37 pm PDT, Jun 12, Sasha Havlik, Canada

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2:02 pm PDT, Jun 5, Ines Seidel, Germany

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4:56 pm PDT, May 31, Maria Dixon, Spain

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7:06 pm PDT, May 28, Michael Pert, New York

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6:27 pm PDT, May 28, Yariv Leers, New York

# 95:

7:37 am PDT, May 28, Hon.Howard Birnbaum mayor of Queens, New York

# 94:

7:36 am PDT, May 28, Frank Kunkel, New York

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7:35 am PDT, May 28, Joe Tobia, New York

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7:33 am PDT, May 28, Arline Wrecker, New York

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7:32 am PDT, May 28, Jeff Fischman, New Jersey

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7:31 am PDT, May 28, Eric Waxman, Pennsylvania

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7:29 am PDT, May 28, Seth Stern, New Jersey

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9:24 pm PDT, May 25, Sophie Szeferowicz, France

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11:40 am PDT, May 25, Anne Seidel, Germany

# 86:

6:18 pm PDT, May 23, Rocki Myers, Ohio

# 85:

7:49 am PDT, May 13, Julia Konys, Missouri

# 84:

5:40 pm PDT, May 11, Jennifer Gardner, Florida
I go with green as often as I can, but I would do it more often if I could afford it.

# 83:

12:33 am PDT, May 11, Kara .C, Australia

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2:22 am PDT, May 10, Heidi Wessel, Florida

# 81:

10:58 pm PDT, May 8, Laurel Burns, Maine

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5:33 am PDT, May 8, Kenneth Lapointe, Canada

# 79:

2:59 pm PDT, May 7, Stephana Benassi, Colorado

# 78:

5:50 pm PDT, May 6, John Balmforth, Georgia
It goes the same way with the new "green / hybrid" cars they are building. They may produce little to no bad emissions, but they cost way more than just a regular old gas burning car. In order to make an impact, ALL cars should be made either "green or hybrid". That way, they will be cheaper and people will be preventing global warming on a much broader scale.

# 77:

2:10 pm PDT, May 6, Name not displayed, Virginia

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10:11 am PDT, May 6, Anita Kofta, Wisconsin

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4:56 am PDT, May 6, Mike Downs, Missouri

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2:44 pm PDT, May 5, Connor Lynch, California

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9:19 am PDT, May 5, Christine Hale, West Virginia
We need to make every effort to use the proven technologies we have at our disposal. If there is a way to reduce the cost and increase the scale of production the green producers will make a very hefty proffit. it is a win win strategy. Let's all get on the same page and we can turn this global problem around!

# 72:

6:24 am PDT, May 5, Bogdan Kovacev, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of

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10:17 pm PDT, May 4, Name not displayed, Wisconsin

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9:34 am PDT, May 4, BiLL Fowlie, Maine

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9:06 pm PDT, May 3, Roxie Schliesman, Wisconsin

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4:19 pm PDT, May 3, Anthony Montapert, California

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6:45 pm PDT, May 2, Name not displayed, New York

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11:33 am PDT, May 2, K Schmidt, Colorado

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10:24 am PDT, May 2, Anja Gundermann, Germany

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9:31 am PDT, May 2, Crissy Baker, Florida

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6:09 pm PDT, Apr 30, Bill McGlone, Connecticut

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4:00 pm PDT, Apr 30, Jessica Murphy, New York

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11:06 am PDT, Apr 30, Kayleen Gubrud, Minnesota

# 60:

8:04 am PDT, Apr 30, Debbi Pilkington, United Kingdom

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6:35 am PDT, Apr 30, Marcin Sztwiertnia, Poland

# 58:

6:25 am PDT, Apr 30, Tristan Fallis, Montana

# 57:

5:41 am PDT, Apr 30, Rose Robinson, Virginia
As my friend Lis stated; I believe in this cause and we help with more names on the petition.

# 56:

4:06 am PDT, Apr 30, Can Atik, Turkey

# 55:

3:44 am PDT, Apr 30, Richard Hughes, South Carolina
Beyond assistance for inviduals to convert to passive energy, Congress must change the laws and policies that favor fossil fuel over green technologies.

# 54:

1:13 am PDT, Apr 30, David Dunkleberger, Pennsylvania

# 53:

9:35 pm PDT, Apr 29, Jennifer Posanka, Illinois

# 52:

6:42 pm PDT, Apr 29, Megan DePerro, New York

# 51:

5:31 pm PDT, Apr 29, Diane Jalbert, Georgia

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