Posted on 27/03/07
Monitoring the juice hogs by the minute
VANCOUVER -- When my wife told me that she had registered our home in a major BC Hydro conservation study, I instinctively nudged Frank. Frank is the metre-long dachshund rag doll that we jam against the base of our double French doors to keep the winter wind from whistling into our living room. My wife prefers him to weather stripping, because he has a paisley coat that looks like pyjamas. I nudged the wiener dog with my foot to scrunch him tighter against the drafty threshold -- and wondered whether BC Hydro's number crunchers could handle our juice-hog ways. That was in September.
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