In 2011, the average household will spend more than $6,500 on energy - $2,200 on home energy costs, and more than $4,300 on gasoline.

Learning about energy conservation facts is a great way to figure out how to conserve energy. Once you know the benefits you can have on the environment, it is easy to find the best ways to start saving energy  and reduce energy waste in the home,in our transportation and turning a negative impact into a positive one. For every person in America, 2,500 gallons of oil are used every year for transportation, heating & cooling, powering all the fun gadgets and toys, for products you buy, food, and even for the stuff we all throw away. Every small step to reduce this over-consumption and reducing waste is a large step towards a greener earth.

OIL & gas facts:

• The United States consumes 20,500,000 (20.5 million) barrels per day or 8,117,500,000 (8.12 billion) barrels per year.

Energy demand will increase 58% worldwide with China’s demand growing 45% over the next 25 years.


 Saudi Arabia  ( one of the world largest suppliers of crude oil) has around 100 major oil and gas fields ( more than 1,500 wells), over half of its oil reserves are contained in  eight fields — including the giant 1,260-square mile Ghawar field, one of the world's largest oil fields, with an estimated remaining reserve of 70 billion barrels.

The Ghawar field alone has more proven oil reserve than all but six other countries.

 Home energy conservation facts:

•       Heating and cooling costs account for about one-half of a typical home’s total energy bill.

•     The refrigerator is the most energy-hungry appliance in the house

•   One 1977 model refrigerator runs on the same amount of energy as four 2009 model made after efficiency standards came into play.

• Small appliances have surprisingly big energy needs. They pull a larger amount of electricity that you might think, and that drain is going up by 7% per year.

• Even though the television is turned off, it is using energy at every moment in order to be ready for the moment you hit the remote “on” switch to watch a show. The microwave needs juice to keep the numbers on the clock glowing. Indeed, most electric appliances suck down energy like little vampires even when they are turned off; this standby power can waste several hundred kilowatts a year per household. Estimates on “vampire” power’s portion of total household energy use are as high as 13%.

• All the refrigerators in the United States use more than half of all the power generated by nuclear power plants. Energy Star refrigerators cut down on energy use, and cuts costs by one-third to two-thirds, depending on the age of the original machine.
• Light use is accountable for about 20 percent of all energy consumed in the US. ·         Efficient, compact fluorescent bulbs last five times longer, and consume 70 percent less energy than  conventional bulbs.

•   By leaving computer monitors on overnight, or not having them on energy saving modes, nine million tons of carbon dioxide emissions are wasted every year.

•   A dishwasher uses 80 percent of its energy for heating water; a washing machine, about 90 percent. Upgrading toEnergy Star models will conserve both water and energy.

• If every American turned their water heater down by ten degrees, 45 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions would be saved every year, and 10 to 15 percent of your energy bill.       The bulk of a household utility bill is due to heating and cooling — about 44 percent.        Heating and cooling systems emit 150 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year.  

•   Turning down the thermostat five to ten degrees every night will reduce heat energy use, and costs, by five to ten percent.

• Updating or fortifying home insulation, taking advantage of solar heat or shade, and weather stripping can cut down on heating and cooling energy use.        If every U.S. household replaced just one incandescent light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified compact fluorescent or even better a LED bulb, it would save enough energy to light about 3 million homes for a year and save more than $650 million in annual energy costs.      Households that replace existing equipment with ENERGY STAR qualified products can cut annual energy bills by 30 percent or more than $600 per year.

• preliminary study estimated that adoption of low-rolling resistance tires could save 1.5–4.5% of all gasoline consumption.
• Nearly 3 billion gallons of fuel contributes to transportation energy waste each year due to traffic congestion.
• Changing the delay of traffic lights nationwide by a few seconds could reduce road traffic congestion by as much as 10%.
• Reduction of traffic congestion would reduce air pollution from vehicles by as much as one-fifth; cut accidents at intersections and save about six tanks of gasoline in transportation energy waste per household each year or an average of $500.00 in personal savings.
•   Smarted driving habits can reduce fuel/gas consumption by 15%.

 Recycling facts

• If everyone in the United States recycled their Sunday paper, 500,000 trees would not have to be cut down, every week.
• For every 700 new paper bags, one 15-year old tree has to be cut down.
• It takes 30 percent less energy to make paper from recycled materials than raw materials.
• It takes 16 times more energy to create a new aluminum can, than one from recycled material.
• The energy saved from recycling one aluminum can is equal to the energy used to power a computer for three hours, or watch the television for one hour.
• It takes 30 percent less energy to manufacture glass from recycled materials.

With the many savings that can be made through common sense changes, you would think we could all get together on making our world a much more efficient place.

The sad fact is that there are too many people that refuse to give up there entitlement on using energy any way they chose, and are unwilling to see the advantages it would create by recognizing many of these energy conservation facts for a improved economy, cleaner environment, and the benefits to future generations.