County Energy Conservation Initiative

I would like to put forth a program that collects and publishes our energy usage as a county, either monthly or quarterly.

Gasoline, Natural Gas, Electricity, water, recycling and solid waste.

Publishing these statistics will make us much more aware how much we are actually consuming. Using these numbers, we can track together how much we use, and collectively work to bring these numbers down.

Sometimes it is hard to get motivated to conserve when looking at individual home energy bills, when only a few dollars are at stake each month. It would be different if we tracked these numbers as a county where tens of thousands of dollars of potential savings are at stake. It is even more important when you realize that we import almost all of the energy we use.

Carry on.