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Any speculation on why DOE was not able to make its new minimum federal standard for furnaces stick? http://aceee.org/blog/2013/01/why-does-cave-furnace-standards-such-   And what effect this will have on the furnace market?  Virtually all furnaces installed in Wisconsin now are 90+, and 40% have ECMs, as this data collected by the Energy Center of Wisconsin shows, http://www.ecw.org/project.php?…