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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (12455)	7/27/2011 10:57:44 AM
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What saves energy? Shame by Andrew Nikiforuk Just about every North American knows that we live as large as Las Vegas when it comes to consuming oil, electricity or natural gas. We are the world's fattest and laziest energy consumers (and our growing corpulence reflects this bitter truth). But, hey, we can't stop snacking, let alone employing more energy slaves. We are also procrastinators. If we can put off insulating the attic or saving for a rainy day, we'll do so. Like healthy dining, energy conservation typically closes a thousand eyelids and gets put off till tomorrow. We are a mañana species and our high-octane living embraces inertia the way TV watchers love couches. But behavioral scientists have been probing our energy dawdling for years and found an old-fashioned solution. Call it shaming or even biblical good sense. But it all boils down to comparing your behavior with that of your neighbors. It works better than high prices and yields more money saving results than a pack of moralizing greens sounding as cranky as the good prophet Moses energybulletin.net