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Consumption and Conservation

How much fuel can be saved when a home is properly insulated?

Insulation of a single-family house with EPS or XPS (extruded polystyrene) over a 50-year period has the potential to save 80 metric tons of heating oil. This in turn corresponds to the fuel consumption of a fully loaded jumbo jet during a flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to New York.



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