Mary Barretta Quotations

What's nice about this is ... most of the major manufacturers participate in the Energy Star program. Which means that you don't have to sacrifice quality to save money or energy.

What's interesting about the questions though is you'll find that the ones that pop up that you don't know the answer to. For instance, what fuel does your dryer use. And it's funny, you say, 'I think it's gas but it could be electric,' and that's certainly something that you should know. So it's a learning process as well.

It doesn't seem like a big thing, but you can save an incredible amount of money.

You also should get your energy bills together from the last three or four months so that you know what types of numbers you would like to cut, and to know what you are paying.

As much as you give is what you're going to get back ... Don't expect to sit down and run through these things in five or ten minutes.

The Energy Star program rates appliances and gives you the line on energy efficient products.