We Needed a Free Beer...

When we found out that our 5.5 year old water heater is already on the skids. The problem is that Sonic isn't giving away free beers of the alcoholic variety, but free root beer floats tonight at all stores across the country from 8 p.m. - midnight.
I guess that will have to do.
As for the water heater, I was hoping to have enough funds back into our emergency account (remember, we had to purchase a generator with enough power to run most of the house during the January ice storm) to get a tankless water heater when the time came. Tankless water heaters are not a new thing in most developed countries in the world, but in the U.S., which is behind in most energy saving technology, it is still a "luxury." The initial cost is much more than a traditional water heater, but tankless water heaters only heats water as needed - eliminating the up to 30 percent of the cost to heat unused water in the traditional models.
However, with our emergency fund still in emergency status, we might have to go with a traditional model one more time.
I have more research to do before our purchase (the old one is still cranking, although we don't know when it will finally die), but whatever we do, we will get the most energy efficient one we can afford.
I'll keep you posted.