Once again I'm not losing much sleep over that fact.
But since I've found this blog to be a useful reference for me in the long term (as "Hey, when was I replacing the seats on the TR6?") I'll spend a little time getting this blog up to date.
Speaking of using this blog as a time reference: I noticed it's been three years since I measured our home electricty usage. At the time I figured cutting power might be like dieting: you work hard to stop doing the bad things, you see a lot of progress, but 8 months later you're back eatting a Big Mac with the a/c set at 62. I'm happy to say our efforts haven't followed a similar path.
I usually track how much power we use on a 12-month rolling average. In early 2009 we were averaging 46kWh per day. By July 2010 we were down to 30kWh per day (despite adding new computers and appliances). Since then it's been between 26 and 29kWh.
I invested $25 (on a Kill-A-Watt) and a few hours of my time and it's saved me over $1900 in electricity in 3 years. Not too shabby in my opinion.
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