Comments on: Reducing Your Home Energy Usage

By: Costs of Owning Two Houses | Money Smart Life

Costs of Owning Two Houses | Money Smart Life — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:11:26 +0000

[...] Utility Bills – Owning two houses means paying two bills for electric, water, and maybe gas. If you have one home on the market you probably don’t want to have it really hot in the summer or really cold in the winter and risk turning off potential buyers that come for a showing. This means you can’t turn the thermostat really high or low to save money on utilities. [...]

By: Eredux

Eredux — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:36:06 +0000

Check out this US Carbon Footprint Map, an interactive United States Carbon Footprint Map, illustrating Greenest States to Cities. This site has all sorts of stats on individual State & City energy consumptions, demographics and much more down to your local US City level…

http://www.eredux.com/states/

By: 99kby2011

99kby2011 — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:59:58 +0000

Great post!

I am currently anxiously awaiting our power bill to see if any of the things I implemented last month will have any effect. I’m already planning on getting another programmable thermostat for our upstairs level (our house is dual zone) and counting up all the bulbs that need to be replaced with CFLs. I also need to check into halogen lights and how much of a drain those are.

If our kwh isn’t down significantly with our next bill, I am going to see about getting an energy audit.