I am livid. I am angry at the world. I am angry at america. I am angry and the right the left and all of us in the silent confused and detached majority in between. Currently it is electricity that has me spinning because every sound bite and every consultant like speech, where someone borrows your watch to tell you what time it is, gets us no where. How about we all stop whining admit that no one is right and just start doing things again. Little things to start and let big people do big things, but for the love of god lets jar out of this frigging 10 years of complacency and stop blaming the Bush's or the Obama's or your taxes or anything else. Do something damn it.
My current frustration is due to the fact that my power bill skyrocketed the last couple months. I am livid because I want more then anything to bring that down and the power company is great at sending me little graphs and lip service for decreasing my power usage but this is all BS like the consultants and the watch. I want to use less power and I have started bugging my roommates to turn off lights, fans, and computers not in use but that is not enough. If we don't have a way to identify where the power is being used, the culprit, then how can you really make any change. And if you have to wait 2 months to see if any of the behavior changes had an impact how are you supposed to manage it.
It is 2010, and everyone and their brother claims that conserving power is their goal. We just shelled out billions in stimulous for energy efficiency and such. Well how about we start simple and we get some thing that duck tapes to every outlet in your house so that when the power bill comes you can actually identify the outlet that sucked the juice. If you know which one is the fat little piggy then suddenly you have the ability to conserve, probably more then a whole squad of those squiggly bulbs!
Ok America... I am laying down the gauntlet. This is not hard. Someone out there invent something I can buy at my hard ware store that will at least approximate the amount of power my outlet is using. It could be something that needs to be installed like a dimmer switch or less integrated like a power strip, but give me something. Its not that I don't trust that magic meter number the power company sends me every month, but if I can't find the parts of that whole then how the hell am I supposed to know how much electricity things are using. Not sure who's best interest it is to make that information so convoluted and difficult but that persons time is over. I am no green hippy tree hugger, I just want to know whats using all my juice.
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