Energy Use and Project Plans

Hawaii ranks #1 in electric energy costs today. 46.3 million barrels of petroleum were imported for Hawaii's total energy use over the past year.
That's 36 barrels of petroleum for every man, woman and child living in Hawaii. There was $5.09 billion left the state last year to pay for imported petroleum. That is $4,000 for every person living in Hawaii.
That's kind of like buying 10 million roundtrip tickets to Las Vegas. Also, there was 11.3 million barrels of petroleum burned by the Hawaii utilities last year to make electricity.
11.3 million barrels of petroleum x $79/barrel=$893 million. That would pay a year's tuition for the 13,952 undergraduate students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa 8 times. The average residential meter in Hawaii uses 615 kilowatt hour per month
That's $175/month spent on electricity - enough for 20 Zip Paks, 24 boxes of a dozen malasadas or 14 pounds of fresh poke. The point is that we use, burn, and waste a lot of energy here in Hawaii each year. In my physics class right now we are trying to find a way for people to save energy in their homes. If we don’t use luxury things like televisions and A/C as much then our electricity use will decline.  I predict that by reducing the use of television daily, we would be able to save a great deal of power.   I predict that by not using the A/C and fans I will save electricity.  My prediction is that I will cut my electricity bill by at least 8%.