Though no one wants to feel taken advantage of, many people get great satisfaction by helping others.Dan,Actually, no I'm not interested, but if I'm going to provide meaningful assistance it's going to be long-term and yes, I charge for my time.  

sure...good point on fifty states, seen all fifty here plus some countries....so the variations by state are real and meaningful, so have to think about those....i find the uniform rules, even if passed, begin to morph through judicial decisions in each state anyway..

--The banks have done a wonderful PR job telling us about their concern for homeowners but a totally inept and irresponsible job of doing meaningful loan modifications.

Only the most repeat, of repeat offenders do meaningful jail time.

IRR provides more "color" but ultimately, without a meaningful discount rate, they are equally useless.Just my $.02...

Also, even if there was a suggestion of an abandoned gas tank, the MA EPA regs state that any abandoned-use underground residential petroleum tank under 1100 gallons requires neither permit, inspection, extraction, nor is one even liable for 3rd party damages.

They are ultimately the ones subsidizing the exploration and extraction, but it is unethical people involved in industry that choose to cut corners which endangers others.

Even if it were true that all extraction of earth creates CO2 emissions (whether that’s oil drilling or mining for metals used for battery production), we still must always be pumping for oil that will eventually run out and gets harder and harder to extract because of that.

I find tying the numbers to something meaningful for my spouse is very effective.

And finally, this is literally just one data point out of what will be many data points, so I really can't read anything meaningful from it.Still...