GBlist: Re: EREN Network News -- 1/31/01

["Dr. Carmine F. Vasile" <gfx-ch@email.msn.com>]

Dear Mr. Eber:  Per Mr. DeWein's reply to my meaasge below "Looks like it's
up to you!", shouldn't it be up to EREN Network News and newspapers covering
the CEC to inform Californian's and others of energy-use profiles by climate
zone so choose their "Conservation Weapon[s]" wisely?  Turning lights off &
dumping old refrigerators may dramatic and newsworthy, albeit a useless
measured to prevent rolling blackouts if today's profile is similar to
California's:
 "Residential Energy Use in 1991"
 ___________________x   36% for Space Conditioning
 __________________x     33% for Water Heating
 ____x                                 10% Miscellaenous
 ___x                                    8%  Refigeration
 __x                                      6%  Cooking
 _x                                        4% Clothes Drying
x                                          1%  Color TV

    Also, what is today's "Residential Energy Use" profile for New York
City, for example since the "Deregulation-Cartel" appears to have targeted
ConEd's ratepayers next?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael C. DeWein" <dewein.bcap@prodigy.net>
To: "Dr. Carmine F. Vasile" <gfx-ch@email.msn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 5:32 AM
Subject: RE: CEC [California Electricity Crisis]


> Looks like it's up to you!
>
> MIKE
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr. Carmine F. Vasile [mailto:gfx-ch@email.msn.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 5:48 PM
> To: Michael C. DeWein; EEBA General
> Cc: Bpca Listserve; ee-building@eeba.org; Ratepayer Revolt
> Subject: CEC [California Electricity Crisis]
>
>
> Dear Mr. DeWein: Thank you for attaching the LA Times aricle entitled:
"The
> Conservation Weapon".
>
>     It is on target, but fails to point out the fact that this weapon is
> controlled by the Deregulation-Cartel -- Politicians &
> Power-Makers/Sellers/Wasters. The latter includes utility-controlled ESCOs
&
> conservation programs. It's opening statement is very true: "In the mess
of
> deregulation, a strong focus on conservation has been lost. After all, in
a
> pure market economy, the sellers and middleman do better by selling, not
by
> encouraging consumers to use less."
>
>     Lost or buried?
>
>     Be that as it may, unless Californians become educated they will
> continue to be deprived control of this "Conservation Weapon" to eliminate
> rolling blackouts and skyrocketing electricity costs. Californians must
> beware because the politicians here on Long Island allowed rates soar to
> 17-cents/kWh before LIPA took over.
>
>     To see how this may happen in California, examine CEC's Pie-Charts @
> www.app-techinc.com/specs_overview.html#BM000; especially the one entitled
&
> summarized as follows:
> "Residential Energy Use in 1991"
> ___________________x   36% for Space Conditioning
> __________________x     33% for Water Heating
> ____x                                 10% -> Miscellaenous
> ___x                                    8%  Refigeration
> __x                                      6%  Cooking
> _x                                        4% -> Clothes Drying
> x                                          1% -> Color TV
>
>     At a glance of the 7 preceeding lines, Californians can see the folly
of
> the their Governor's new $250-million program to promote conservation &
> prevent rolling blackouts by replacing old refrigerators and air
> conditioners with modern, efficient ones.
>
>     Since many homes in California, including the one I once owned in
> Thousand Oaks, don't have space cooling, it's hard to fathom how a program
> excluding efficient "combi" space/water heaters using modern, efficient
> tankless gas/electric water heaters like those used in Germany can be
> excluded in a State where 69% of its residential energy consumption in
1991,
> and perhaps a decade later, was for space conditioning & water heating.
>
>     My former neighbors in California need to know this. Who will tell?
>
> Best Regards,
>  =====================================================
>  Dr. Carmine Vasile, CEO
>  WaterFilm Energy Inc.,
>  P.O. Box 128
>  Medford, NY 11763
>  Voice: 631-758-6271 [Fax: 631-758-0438]
>  Email: gfx-ch@msn.com Web: http://oikos.com/gfx/
> =====================================================
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael C. DeWein
> To: EEBA General
> Cc: Bpca Listserve ; ee-building@eeba.org
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 9:18 AM
> Subject: t000005898
>
>
> I think this is a great, consumer-freindly article on the CA and national
> "energy crisis", without all the wonky chatter, that might be useful to
some
> of you for passing or when speaking to constituents and customers.
>
> MIKE
>
> Michael C. DeWein
> Technical Director
> BCAP/Alliance to Save Energy
> 102 Vosburgh Rd.
> Mechanicville, NY 12118
> phone  518-664-1308
> fax  518-664-5672
> email  dewein.bcap@prodigy.net
> web  www.bcap-energy.org
>
>  t000005898
>
>




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