American households typically spend more than $200 annually on air conditioning. Households in some regions of the South can easily spend twice that much.
Alliance to Save Energy, 2005
Airconditioning
Feb 1st, 2008 by Hans De Keulenaer
Energy independence by 1985
Jan 30th, 2008 by Hans De Keulenaer
I am recommending a plan to make us invulnerable to cutoffs of foreign oil. It will require sacrifices, but it–and this is most important–it will work…A massive program must be initiated to increase energy supply to cut demand, and provide new standby emergency programs to achieve the independence we want by 1985…Increasing energy supplies is not enough. We must take additional steps to cut long-term consumption…I have a very deep belief in America’s capabilities.
Gerald Ford, 1975
The unaffordable automobile
Jan 28th, 2008 by Hans De Keulenaer
The automobile is our worst polluter of the air. Adequate control requires further advances in engine design and fuel composition. We shall intensify our research, set increasingly strict standards, and strengthen enforcement procedures — and we shall do it now.
We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources, which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw garbage into our neighbor’s yard.
Richard Nixon, 1970
Saving 400 $ per year
Jan 25th, 2008 by Hans De Keulenaer
The average household spends $1,400 each year on energy bills. By choosing Energy Star-qualified products, consumers can cut this by 30 percent, saving about $400 each year.
Alliance to Save Energy, 2005
Babysteps
Jan 24th, 2008 by Hans De Keulenaer
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope; and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Levelling the playing field
Jan 23rd, 2008 by Hans De Keulenaer
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
The complexity of the energy debate
Jan 22nd, 2008 by Hans De Keulenaer
The energy crisis is certainly one of the most complex subjects ever put before the media, and through them, to the American public. It encompasses international relations, economics, science, and that most unpredictable of groups, the consuming public.
Walker, H E: The other crisis – energy and the media: Vital Speeches of the Day: Vol 40 No 18
Negawatts
Jan 21st, 2008 by Hans De Keulenaer
These “negawatts” have been every bit as valuable in economic terms as the “produced watts” of energy they replaced. With today’s energy prices a negawatt of energy savings costs about half of what it costs to produce the same amount of energy. The cheapest, most competitive, cleanest and most secure form of energy for the European Union thus remains saved energy.
Andris Piebalgs, Energy Commissioner
Saving 1,800 $
Jan 18th, 2008 by Hans De Keulenaer
The difference between a car that gets 20 MPG (miles per gallon) and one that gets 30 MPG amounts to $1,800 over 5 years, assuming gas costs $1.80 per gallon and one drives 12,000 miles a year.
Alliance to Save Energy, 2005
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