Let energy efficiency be your economic survival plan
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Pani Crook grew up living in homes with affordable utility bills built by Dennis Crook.
Pani Crook
Dennis Crook
Pani and Dennis Crook represent two generations of a family business devoted to teaching families across the country how to have affordable utility bills. Dennis,
originally a home builder began researching designs and methods that reduce a home's energy demands
shortly after the “other” energy crisis of the 1970's. He is a speaker and panelist on university and municipal conferences on greenhouse gas reduction, global warming, sustainability and energy efficiency.
The family business, Energy Efficient Homes Team, provides informational materials, and consulting services.
Pani and Dennis are available by telephone, via satellite, and occasionally in studio.
Their press release and list of sample interview questions follow below. If you'd like a copy of their complete press kit and their Home Energy Audit System, please call 610 384 7866(media only).
What salespeople recommend fixing first…but really should be last!
Why conservation can't save enough money.
Factors that make it hard to maintain a comfortable temperature inside your home.
Food or heat…a choice millions of Americans are being forced to make.
Why you shouldn't use your attic as a living or storage area.
Learn how spiders can help you.
Rising energy bills are the silent culprit in the housing crisis.
Why your home could be making you sick.
Why doing your own home energy audit will save you money.
DON'T call a contractor/ salesperson before YOU identify the problem areas of your home.
How to know, just by looking at the outside of a home, if it's an energy guzzler.
It's not just oil…other problems have fueled the higher costs for energy.
Essential components that make a home use energy more efficiently.
Energy efficieny—a giant solution to the energy crisis!
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And much more
Homeowners spend well over $200 billion each year just on electricity
The cost of energy in your home could easily be a cost equal to or greater than your mortgage. And rising utility rates have increased 20% in the last 12 months with no signs of slowing down.
More than 15 million families were late on their utility bills by the beginning of the summer of 2008
According to the New York Times and CNN, more than 15 percent of households had fallen behind on their utility bills during the winter of 2007/2008. This record number includes working class and middle class families. In addition, utility companies across the nation report an increase in the number of customers paying by credit card. Once those lines of credit are exhausted, there could be even more families at risk.
Rising energy bills are creating a hidden mortgage crisis
Energy costs can equal or exceed a homeowner's mortgage, creating a second, hidden mortgage. This is fueling the mortgage crisis in the United States. Homeowners are getting hit on two fronts: rising mortgage costs and soaring utility bills. They get by for a while by “robbing Peter to pay Paul.” But what happens when both bills have to be paid?
With rising fuel prices, utility rates will get even higher in the coming year .
Consumers have not yet felt the impact of the increased cost of fuel on their utility bills. Just like gas prices, the forecast for the coming year is a relentless increase in the cost of home energy. Recently, the Department of Energy predicted an increase of nearly 10% in home energy rates for the coming winter. Some Southeastern Pennsylvania residents were quoted as much as $4.59 a gallon for fuel oil for the 2008/2009 home heating season.
Pani and Dennis Crook represent two generations of a family business devoted to teaching families across the country how to have affordable utility bills
Dennis, originally a home builder began researching energy efficient construction shortly after the “other” energy crisis of the 1970's. He has decades of experience designing and building energy efficient homes. He specialized in environmental studies at Iowa State University , and researched the U.K. 's Green housing market at the University of Wales . When he returned from the U.K., he realized he could make a bigger impact teaching people how to make changes on their own.
Pani could be the only person of her generation who has been raised entirely in an energy efficient environment. Having never heard her parents discuss utility bills, she was in for a shock when she got her first electric air conditioning bill at her own apartment. It was higher than her parents paid for their 4100+ square foot home.
She learned from them that health, comfort and cost weren't the only benefits of energy efficiency homes. Cutting home energy consumption has a tremendous impact on the environment.
After getting a marketing degree, she moved back home to help transition the family business from building to teaching people how they can have affordable utility bills too.
Home Energy Audit Guide is available for $47.86 by visiting:
www.AffordableUtilityBills.comassist@affordableutilitybills.com
Sample Interview Questions
For Pani Crook,
How to Survive Rising Utility Bills
How did you become interested in telling people how they can have affordable utility bills?
What's the biggest hidden source of energy loss in homes?
What are some of the problems we are facing today because of the home energy crisis?
Why conservation methods are not enough to substantially reduce your utility bills?
What can our listeners do so they can have affordable utility bills too?
How will I know if my home is missing these key elements?
Are there any energy-saving “schemes” people should be aware of?
Is it true that your home in Pennsylvania was actually heated with light bulbs? How can that be?
Pani, you said you know if a home is wasting energy just by looking at it from the outside. Please tell us how.
Wouldn't it be easier to have someone come to my home and tell me what's wrong?
Where do people go to learn more about your Home Energy Audit system?
To Schedule An Interview,
Contact Pani At:
(610) 384-7866 (Media Only)
Sample Interview Questions
For Dennis Crook,
How to Survive Rising Utility Bills
What would you give for a home that you don't have to pay utilities on?
Do you want to get off the energy merry-go-round?
What's the true cost of energy?
Why can't I just add solar panels, wind turbines, or other alternative energies instead of finding and fixing the hidden sources of energy loss in my home?
