Warming your house the green way just got more expensive

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  NPR.

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  This is the Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Darian Woods here with friend of the show,

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  Nate Hedgie, host of the Public Radio podcast, Outside In.

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  Great to be back.

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  You've not been on the show for a while.

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  No, I was busy moving.

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  I'm in Juneau, Alaska now.

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  And actually, lately,

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  I've been spending my days digging out of the absolutely record breaking amount of snow we had.

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  Yeah, I've been doing a bit of shoveling here.

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  It has been quite the brisk winter, I must say.

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  Yeah, sub zero temperatures across the country.

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  And I'm sure folks are looking at their energy bills with their jaws dropped.

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  Like I spent more than $1,000 on heating oil already this winter.

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  But if Americans want to make their homes more energy efficient after this cold snap,

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  it might cost them extra.

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  Yeah, and that's because a series of clean energy tax credits have officially expired.

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  They save many people thousands of dollars on everything from heat pumps to insulation to energy-efficient wood stoves.

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  And now they are no more.

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