30% TAX CREDIT TO INCLUDE COMMERCIAL SWIMMING POOLS-WHY NOT RESIDENTIAL?

I recently read an article in Cleantechnica.com by Susan Kraemer about the tax credits that were issued from the American recovery Act using solar to heat water. In here article she talks about how much greenhouse gas we could reduce if "Senator Feinstein’s measure would extend the 30% solar tax credit which is set to expire in 2010, and expand it to include solar thermal for commercial and community swimming pools". Great idea I must say but why stop there, why not include residential swimming pools two. Is there anything different from a commercial or public pool than the pool you or I have in our back yard.....YES actually there is. there are two things different. The first thing being that when was the last time you (pool owner) went to a Motel- Amusement Park- or any Public Swimming Pool and when you got in the water found that there pool was warmer than yours at home??? Probably never. I myself do not remember the last time that I was at a commercial pool and it was warmer than a backyard pool. The second thing that I find to be rather ridiculous is that in another article that I read by Susan Kraemer she writes "Municipal pools are typically covered at night to keep the heat in. Home hot tubs are the same. But apartment complexes simply leave the whole thing exposed to the chilly night air. Even when the cost of keeping pools and hot tubs warm go to well over half the energy costs of the entire complex, the marketing people simply won’t allow the pool to be covered at night." So because we home owners use different products two keep our heat in our pools at night so that our heat bill does not sky rocket we shouldn't be eligible for a solar tax credit if we switched to solar heating of our swimming pools????? That is the most idiotic thing that i have ever heard and it may actually be voted into law.
So know is the time voice your opinion to your local government. E-mail them, write them, phone them, or stop into there office and let them know that you as a homeowner want this law passed, but you also want this law extended to the home owner who has the swimming pool in there backyard. We desreve it just as much as any business man who owns a commercial pool.

Chad C Butcher

(Chad,s opinions do not necessarily represent that of Quality Pool & Spa Inc.)