Higher energy use is already changing the world's climate in dangerous ways.

Total energy use is soaring, reflecting the combined effect of rising per capita incomes and thus rising per capita energy use and population growth.

Because of rising energy prices from green subsidies, 800,000 German households can no longer pay their electricity bills.

Past bills can be used to provide a comparison between pre and post EMS energy consumption.

The government needs to encourage conservation, and intervening in the price system namely, through taxes on energy is an efficient way to do it.

But the lion s share of these investments result in lower energy usage, and thus reduced energy costs.

Growing renewable energy consumption creates new opportunities for renewable energy technology manufacturing and related installation and maintenance services.

The US uses only half as much oil per dollar of production as it did before the price spikes of the 1970 s.

In 2008, renewable energy (mainly hydropower and various forms of wood energy) was high at 31 compared with the EU average of 10.3 in final energy consumption.

Shifts to more energy efficient means of transportation ease congestion.

Attempts to shave costs by economizing on energy use reduce pollution.

Consumption of energy, and its associated emissions, continue to grow to meet development needs.

With higher incomes, rising meat consumption requires more grain for animal feed.

Europeans might be forgiven for thinking that the Americans, who pumped up oil prices in the first place with their military misadventure in Iraq, should be the ones who pump it down with an energy tax.

And global warming s impact would reduce energy consumption for almost all nations.

And the US is taking steps to balance its budget, boost private savings, and enhance energy efficiency.

But energy consumption and thus carbon emissions rise with per capita income.

This means that the energy consumption per capita is around 7.2 tons of oil equivalent per year.

He programmed cpudyn, a daemon that can be used to underclock portable computers to reduce their power consumption.

The Advisory Committee was informed that the high spare parts consumption was due to damages caused to communications equipment by erratic and unreliable electricity supply in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

While US Vice President Dick Cheney denigrates the idea of energy conservation, China s leaders have adopted a new five year plan that commits the country to cut energy use by one fifth, industrial pollution by one tenth, and industrial water consumption by one third.

In the developing world, however, tobacco consumption continues to rise at 3.4 in 2002.

The United Nations climate panel and the International Energy Agency both echo this sentiment, insisting that higher energy efficiency could reduce energy consumption by up to 30 making improved efficiency an effective remedy for climate change.

Currently, 20 percent of California's energy consumption is used to pump water into mostly Southern California.

Nevertheless, electricity usage has reached near record levels.

Despite power consumption issues, and repeated predictions of its end, Moore's law is still in effect.

Currently, transportation systems account for nearly a quarter of the world s energy consumption and carbon dioxide emission.

At the same time, natural gas accounts for 51 of energy consumption, compared to 32 for oil and barely 17 for coal, renewables, and hydroelectric and nuclear power.

American citizens resistance to moderating energy consumption for the sake of the global environment is much more deeply embedded.

Since the city s consumption of electric power never stops, the boilers could never be idle.

Firstly, China succeeded in lowering its energy consumption per unit of GDP by 1.79 , 4.04 and 4.59 respectively for 2006, 2007, and 2008, which strongly suggests the prospect of meeting the 20 objective by 2010.

With higher energy prices, many Russian officials are enjoying their renewed power.

A healthy supply of alternative energy sources will help to combat gasoline price spikes.

Obama also mentioned that he had raised fuel economy standards for cars in the US, and had invested in renewable energy sources, like solar and wind power.

Smelting copper ore, for example, is more than twice as energy intensive as recycling copper.

The net result of a series of small changes would be a dramatic reduction in energy consumption.

Up to a threshold of around 100 kwh per capita per day, energy consumption and human development indicators go hand in hand.

The only chance of improvement is to decouple economic growth from energy consumption and emissions.

This is the kind of frugally engineered product that can create enormous new consumer demand in emerging markets.

The Consumer Protection Association will start a meat boycott campaign today in Cairo and all the other Egyptian provinces.

The agenda to address climate change overlapped with the imperative for greater energy efficiency in the wake of high energy prices.

During the current cycle, China s rapid economic growth provided this impetus, exemplified by the country s rising share of global metals consumption.

For instance, the energy consumption of every unit of Chinese industrial output is close to three times the global average.

As a result, they boast some of the world s lowest energy consumption as a share of GDP.

The agency is supporting the 2000 watt society initiative to cut the nation's energy use by more than half by the year 2050.