“Want to save electricity? Turn big ticket items off. Lights use very
little. Having items on “instant stand-by” is expensive. The big energy
users are clothes dryers, AC units and anything that produces heat from electricity. The price of AC units has crashed over the years and now units for less than $100 can be bought at Walmart. Everyone has AC and it uses a tremendous amount of electricity. Open windows at night for a bit – get the wind blowing through the house, etc. Then turn on the AC or not…- the AC pumps out cold area which is heavy and immediately sinks.

We could probably solve much of the energy/cost/green problem but simply adhering to one principle – “don’t waste money”. A problem is that many people have no idea what energy costs. I always thought it would be a good idea to have a kitchen clock device in each house that would show the cost of electricity being used at any given moment and total cost to date. With bills arriving to only one person two months later no one has any idea of the cost of running anything.”