Double Check Your Energy Lifestyle for Power Savings.

Double check your lifestyle for greater energy savings.

Don Ames

Oh-Oh, the ‘L’ word. L-I-F-E-S-T-Y-L-E. Let’s face it, a home can only hold up so many satellite dishes. Humanity has been plugging in one new electrical appliance after another for years. Come on, admit it, we’re just not living if we don’t have that VCR and TV mounted to the underside of the kitchen cabinet. Fact of the matter is, any power saving measure we undertake can be short circuited by our lifestyle.

(Install a low flow shower nozzle and then take a 30 minute, really hot shower. Install a low flow sink aerator and then let the water run while we brush our teeth. Install a new water saving toilet and then flush it three times. Use a 50 inch TV to light the bedroom. Install a programmable thermostat and forget how to program it. Replace the furnace filter and then 3 months later forget when the last time was that we replaced it. Run the new, high efficiency dishwasher half full. Set the new super-duper clothes dryer for 60 minutes drying time when the super-duper includes an automatic shut off setting when the clothes are dry. Leave the computer on all night so it will be ready to go in the morning. Pay the blankety-blank  power bill without ever reading it.)

We want to save power and save money, so we are going to have to live a little like ‘Ed’. Come on, Ed doesn’t have it that bad.