Average annual use of oil by other citizens of the world versus USA.

Welcome to your Personal Energy Guide

Saving energy helps our pockets and our planet. This guide has been designed to help you do both. Our non-renewable energy reserve is depleting at an alarming rate. Practical tips in this guide show you how to easily reduce energy usage around your house while saving you money at the same time.

Since the late 1970s, the U.S. government has encouraged the public to conserve energy because our consumption of Nonrenewable types of energy, such as oil, has increased while the supplies have been diminished. Since then, there has been a 16 percent increase in our use of energy. Even with the estimated discoveries of 53 billion barrels a year, without a change in our energy consumption, the world reserve of oil will be gone in 44.6 years.

Worldwide there are about 1.27 trillion barrels in reserve. Even with estimated discoveries of 53 billion barrels a year, without a change in our energy consumption rate, the world reserve of oil will be gone in 44.6 years.

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