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And we have a 245 year supply of coal. Build more plants.
Can't disagree there, but conversion to use in cars in more expensive now than converting oil to use in cars. Lighting use in american homes is about 9% by the way. Enough for me to switch considering the reduction of $15 in my electric bill and the longer amount time that I have to go before a replacement.
Everybody complains about the cost of fuel. But there is a effectively a finite amount of fuel in the pipeline. If we have to use it for making electrical power for mostly lighting, and we have a way to say 80% of it by changing to a different lighting source, why would we not do that?
Most of our electric comes from coal which is cheap and there is about 2 century supply. The oil supply is separate issue than electric, about 1% of electric comes from oil and that is probably what the refineries generate.
Then like I said before, why doesn't the government mandate the water heaters, refrigerators, stoves, etc, all use a certain amount of juice? Instead of going after the power-hungry products, they go after...light bulbs. That makes sense.
They do have efficiency mandates for most of these products. Maybe not for stoves, not sure what you would do there. If you want to boil 1 gallon of water you need X amount of BTU's and the amount of electric used by elemental heat doesn't change to produce those BTU's.
Most of our electric comes from coal which is cheap and there is about 2 century supply. The oil supply is separate issue than electric, about 1% of electric comes from oil and that is probably what the refineries generate.
True, I dont get why so many people connect electricity with using oil.
People worry about the energy usage of an electronic, but the plastic that the device was made from probably used more oil than it will use for energy in it's lifetime.
But in my case (as others) how does the cost of migraine pills offset that savings?
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