Why should I save electricity? I leave all my lights, TV, radio, and computer on 24 hours a day.?

Answer 1

Using electricity wisely can help you get more value for your energy dollar. It also helps to conserve natural resources and reduces the impact energy use has on the environment.
After all, when you plug something into the wall, it seems clean enough -- you don't see or smell any pollution, like you do with your car. But the pollution is there.
If we do not save electricity, our energy sources like coal will eventually dry up.
We could save electricity and money in many ways just by switching off lights, computers, televisions and any electrical equipment when it is not in use. If you leave a television or video on stand-by it is still using up electricity!
I mean, why would you have to leave those things on all day, what is the point of this? I have recently joined the enviromental group at school and I have learnt so much.
I'm in year 9.

Answer 2

Need To Save Electricity

Answer 3

Hi Paul, We need to perserve our electricity because everyone needs it all over the world. I live in Arizona and our hottests months are Augest and September where the temperature reaches over 110. One summer we had a black out cuz too much energy was used and not conserved it effected three states. Everyone in Az was without power for hours. There are also ways to help maintain your house to keep it cooler so your electric bill doesn't go up. During the day keep the lights off as much as possible, if you have a ceiling fan only use them when you're in the room, they are a people cooler not a room cooler. Keep your blinds closed during the day. What you should do is try this for a month, turn everything off and see what a difference it makes in your electric bill, you might be surprised. Also, if you have a dishwasher and washing machine and a dryer, don't use them during the day. Use them early in the am and late at night. It will help with your electric bill. I hope these tips help. Anyway this is all the advice I can give ya. Good luck.

Answer 4

Assuming 10 cents per kilowatt hour, and a coal-fired powerplant that releases 2 pounds CO2 per KWH, for every dollar extra on your electric bill, you've put 20 lbs of CO2 into the atmosphere, about the same as a gallon of gas. It is hard to quantify the damage you will do to the planet this way, because a lot depends on governments. One person's impact is paltry compared to the actions of many. The US government can take many actions to reduce the danger we are in from global warming. Some easy, some expensive or controversial. Forest fire policy is a key area where anything the government does is going to completely overshadow what we do in our homes.

Answer 5

Well, why don't you send me ALL of your money - and I'll be happy to squander it for you just as you squander the Earth's precious resources.
No doubt you're some kind of spoiled rich kid who thinks he can waste whatever he wants just because he can afford it.
Apparently you care for no one other than yourself and your own comfort and convenience.
Someday (perhaps, if you can stop loving yourself long enough) you might meet someone, marry, and have children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of your own. And as those descendants grow up, they will come to know that YOU - their father, grandfather or great-grandfather CHOSE to waste, refused to reDUCE, reUse or reCYCLE, with utter disregard for THEIR future. So, while they wear gas masks in order to breathe fresh air; while they can't find enough clean drinking water; whey they live with the stench of toxic poisons that have leached from the ground all because YOU failed to conserve, preserve, protect or even CARE about our environment, they might ask you, "WHY?"
"Why, Grandpa Paul, did you care so little about the fragile ecological balance between all humans, plants and animals? Why, Grandpa Paul, did you choose to waste so much of the Earth's resources? Why didn't you think about us and out future while you were recklessly leaving all your lights, TVs, radios and computers on 24 hours a day? Why must WE now struggle just because YOU were such a careless, selfish, arrogant, ignorant, wasteful pig?"
Tell me, Paul, how will YOU answer your children, and their children and their children's children?? Or, will you still be as smug and supercilious in your old age as you are now?? -RKO- 05/11/07

Answer 6

It must be nice to live in your own little world where nothing else matters but you. You sound like an ignorant, arrogant, boorish, selfish, most likely unattractive, idiot who probably doesn't have any friends--that's why you leave all of your appliances on so that you don't get lonely and scared. If by some weird chance you ever have offspring--Heaven forbid, more of you---I guess they'll just have to sit in the dark and they can't go outside because of the enormous hole in the ozone layer, you dimwit. But who cares because it's all about you----NOT!

Answer 7

The South African electricity Infrastructure can not cope with the ever expanding use of electricity by its people which now include the previously disadvantaged, which is why we are always subjected to long periods of black outs which can run into days. Geysers must be switched of when you return from work and turned on again when you go to bed and any unnecessary lights must be turned off etc.

Answer 8

Because you are a responsible member of the Family of Man.

Unless there is some doubt about the correctness of your action (May be you are just provoking a response), this question would not have been asked.

You may be paying for it, but wasteful consumerism always leads to deprivation elsewhere, usually of people , who are already disadvantaged.

Let your conscience be your judge.

Answer 9

You do that? We should all save energy! Turn off any electrical appliance when not in use, especially lights. Energy resources are limited, so save energy before it's too late.

Answer 10

It's about social responsibility.The more power we use, the more of our natural resources we squander. As the waste of these resources progresses, we are putting all future generations lives in danger, and taking away their ability to have a quality of life similar to what is enjoyed now. It is like taking food or clothes or medicine from your own child,so that you can buy something frivolous for yourself. Don't be frivolous.