We’re building a house and at the point of picking out appliances I thought I wanted to go with all energy-star appliances save money and energy in the long after going back and forth looking at the specs on two comparable GE refrigerators – one energy-star, the other not energy star, the savings per year appears to be a whopping $3. As the energy star fridge is $200. more than the regular it would take 66 years to absorb that cost. Also, is it just me or is $3 of energy savings really going to be …any?

The math is based on what the two GE machines say on their spec pages, this seems like a huge waste of my money…where is the savings? what am I missing or is this just a bunch of hype.