Inside Energy (https://insideenergy.org/tag/energy-consumption/)
Nothing in our world – cars, coffee, cat videos, canned pineapple – would exist without energy. But although energy makes everything work, most of us don’t know answers to even the most fundamental questions: How much energy do we use? And where does our energy come from? This animated video looks at how our energy sources and uses vary across time and geography.
Some people are obsessed with energy. Some are beyond bored. Others are bursting with questions. And more often than not, people talk about energy as if it’s a friend they haven’t talked to in years and keep meaning to call…but never do. This talk looks at how our relationship with energy is broken, and what we can do to fix it.
When you look at your monthly electricity bill, you probably focus on the number with a dollar sign in front of it. But there’s another value listed: how much energy you actually used. If you are a perfectly average American living in a perfectly average household, your monthly electricity bill will read 911 kilowatt hours (kWh), which costs $114. But most of us don’t live in perfectly average households. (The state that comes closest to matching the average monthly electricity usage is Ohio).
Last week, we looked at energy production and energy consumption – today, we’ll look at them side-by-side to see how they compare.
Yesterday, we took a look at energy production. Today, we’re turning to consumption. All three boom states are net energy producers. (As a nation, we consume more energy than we produce) For all three, industry is the biggest consumer and transportation is the runner-up.
