Our electric utility is offering to buy back old refrigerators (between
10 and 30 cu. ft.) for $30. I can see the logic of this (and of the subsidized CFLs), because it may postpone the need to build new power plants. BUT why do they insist that they must be in working order? (We have to have it plugged in and working when they come to pick it up.) Are they planning to refurbish them and sell them (at a profit, no doubt) to other poor suckers who will increase the load on some other utility?Perce