> If for environmental reasons I feel like removing working appliances is counterproductive I don't think this follows. There's not THAT much that goes into m

> If for environmental reasons I feel like removing working appliances is counterproductive I don't think this follows. There's not THAT much that goes into making a furnace, but it emits a hell of a lot of emissions every year that it's running. I suspect they paid back the CO2 cost of the new equipment relatively quickly.