I tried to post an article I wrote...

The Psychology of Energy Change is an article I've written about the fact that the current 'energy crisis' is more based upon mindset than any real lack of energy (re)sources. I tried to reproduce the article and found that the blogsite rejected it and instead produced a pile of computer gibberish.
I will have to find soneone that can tell me what I've done wrong. The basic facts of the article are as folows:
1) we are creatures of habit- we've gotten used to using older technologies and are not embracing change as the most solid means of transiting energy problems.
2) basic transportation (ie.:cars with internal combustion engines), lighting (anything that uses a resistive element i.e.: incandescent light bulbs & their near relatives) and housing (wood framed walls that have minimally standardized insulation standards rather than being designed to lose virtually no energy in either direction) are what we're used to...imagine still having fountain pens as a standard writing instrument...these technologies are all from the same era!)
3) an LED (light emitting diode) light bulbs use 1/30 of the energy that a comparable incandescent light bulb utilizes...thirty light bulbs for the energy cost of one....CFL's (compact florescent lightbulbs) were a good idea and they are currently being touted as the 'solution' by being 4x more efficient than the incandescent equivalent. They are being marketed aggressively because the companies have the manufacturing infrastructure to pay for before they switch to making LED bulbs. Despite that the prices for both CFL's and LED's are coming down. Competition in the Chinese markets? You can find CFL's for a dollar and Led's for $5 and if you look around for even less.
4) Think of a dripping faucet and the efforts you will go through to stop the annoying noise and waste of water...if you put the same effort into stopping the silent losses of electricity from inefficient devices and phantom loads (your TV is on right now, but the tube is off for example),
overbuilt internal combustion engines (8 Cylinders! when 2 or three would do!) or heating/cooling the great outdoors with house insulation as efficient as a t-shirt in the winter.
5) We cut our electrical consumption by 3/4 without sacrificing any level of comfort by just changing stuff we were replacing anyway AND changing our habits.

More to follow....contact me at jsjuczak@gisco.net for questions and other stuff.