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Comment Re:Anti-Tesla Rhetoric! (Score 2) 466

What I find most annoying about all this is less the could of smug, and more the fact that household electricity use is such a small slice of the pie of overall US energy use. From wind power to this DC nonsense, it's obsessing on feelgood measures of little importance to the big picture.

This biggest slice of the pie is industrial energy use where electricity isn't part of the picture: "Primary energy use" by heavy industry for blast furnaces and the like. Industrial electricity use is the next biggest slice, followed by IIRC industrial transportation.

False, residential accounts for 22 % of energy use in USA. In fact, buildings in general (commercial + residential) take up the largest slice of the pie. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejou...

Comment Re:Here's what holds ME back. (Score 3, Insightful) 530

It can be cheaper to go green. Drop down to 1 car if possible (try to bike or walk instead). Buy clothes from the thrift store etc. Switch to mostly vegetarian diet (maybe not cheaper now, but meat prices are skyrocketing so it will likely get there soon). Run your AC/heat less. Buy a used car (it may get less mpg but I imagine the emissons saved from not having to manufacture/transport a brand new car would make it worth it) In general, buying/consuming less is greener, and obviously cheaper. I bet it has a much higher impact than buying organic/fair trade shit, or prius's

Comment Chocolate? (Score 1) 283

I eat at least a bar of strong dark chocolate every week, but I'd imagine that even one cup of coffee will have more caffeine than an entire bar of chocolate. I have tried some coffee infused chocolate bars however.

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