Green or just plain cheap

[chickenfeet]

Last year we started to make a concerted effort to use less electricity. I can't really say this was entirely due to concern for polar bears and still less was it due to any remorse at the thought of London or New York being swamped by rising sea levels. No, it was because we were really broke. That said, our electricity consumption (kWh) for the last six months has been only 56% of our usage in the equivalent period in 2005/6. I reckon that's pretty good going.

Comments

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Oh good lord you really lowered the heating enough to wear a coat and gloves AT HOME?

I would die a horrible death. I have gone to week-ends in English country houses clutching my hot-water bottle and begging for a clandestine two-bar heater. (I have actually refused invitations in the country in winter because the nice people who asked me believe central heating is for wusses.) And you live in CANADA!

*shivers*

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

And I grew up in Northern California where we needed neither heating nor air conditioners. I'm nothing if not adaptable but, I keep telling myself I'm spending next winter in India