"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
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I wonder just how much oil we could save by turning out some lights.
Flying into a city airport in the wee hours I see thousands of street
lights, but don't see any traffic. Entire industrial parks are well lit
but no one working. Businesses have signs lit on their closed stores and
no on on the streets to read them. Just seems plain silly.


Oddly, we could probably save a bundle of oil and or coal but it may cost us
more for less light. A couple of years ago I went to the PUC web site to
compare electricity charges by different companies that produce electricity.
I was shocked to find that home owners pay about double the price that big
users use. IIRC some where around 7500- 10,000 kwh of usage per month the
price of electricity came in at 5 cents per kwh. I pay about 10 cents per
kwh.

I am sure there is some law against it but why couldn't a whole neighborhood
be a single customer/customer and each home owner pay for his usage of that
total billed to the neighborhood.