International Energy Network News: The author recently visited the United States to visit relatives and experience the details of daily life of this energy-consuming country. President Obama once said in a recent speech that Presidents and politicians in the history of the United States have promised energy independence, but these promises have failed to materialize. To change this situation. He is prepared to reduce US oil imports, encourage energy companies to accelerate oil and gas production, and seek energy diversification. He even put forward some concrete measures to build four advanced bio-energy plants in the next two years and asked the government departments to ensure that by 2015, all new automobiles will be able to use alternative energy sources including hybrid energy and electricity.

The author believes that Obama should also advocate that the United States should take more concrete measures and actions in saving living energy. According to statistics, the per capita energy consumption of the United States in 2009 was 4.5 times that of China. This situation reminds the United States to focus on reducing the consumption of living energy. This is very important for alleviating the tension in the US oil energy. It is beneficial to both the country and the people, and it is also a powerful measure to seek the independence of the United States. The United States must not only pay attention to "open source" but also pay attention to "throttling." The author has witnessed the consumption of energy in daily life in the United States is arrogant, unrestrained, and wasteful. There is a sharp contrast with China's efforts to save energy.

Let us first talk about public lighting street lamps. This is an area that consumes a lot of electricity in daily life. In China, the streetlights are lit only when the night falls, and the darkness begins to fade out the next day. In the park, in the late evening, the streetlights have become even lighter in the evening, and people are taking leisurely walks in the twilight to be happier to save some electricity. In the United States, it is another scene. The street lights turn on at about five o'clock in the afternoon. At this time, the sun is still very strong, and the street light is dizzy and dim. The next morning, the sun rose very high and the street light went off at nearly eight o'clock. The average street light in the US is more than three or four hours brighter every day than in China. How much energy is consumed during the period! Even more intolerable is that there are many arbitrariness and omissions in the regulation of street lamps in the United States. You often find that a string of street lamps or some street lamps is inexplicably lit during sunny daylight. People are blind to them and are not surprised by it. They will not go. Remind relevant parties that this usually does not happen in China. Everyone is most indignant at daylight.

Power consumption in public places in the United States is equally astonishing. In recent years, China has strict regulations on the use of electricity in stores, supermarkets, and office buildings. In summer, the air-conditioning temperature is above 26 degrees Celsius, and in winter, the room temperature is maintained at about 18 degrees Celsius. In the United States, despite the outdoor snow drifting, the shopping crowd in the supermarket can only wear thin clothes because the air-conditioning temperature is too high. School libraries and other public places also lack light management. Once I went to visit a famous American school and stepped into a 70-80 square meter computer room. But when I saw a row of computers on a table, the full house was a white light. It was empty and nobody managed it. It is said that this is commonplace in the United States and there is no need to be overwhelmed. It is puzzling that American high-quality people do not regret unnecessary power consumption.

For household electricity, China and the United States have great differences in their consumption concepts and habits. Chinese people highlight the word "saving". In the summer, air-conditioning cooling is used as much as possible when it's too late. As far as possible, refrigerators are meticulously used to buy small-capacity and low power consumption. In winter, they are better at using the balcony as a natural freezer. Clothes dryers have not yet been favored by the general public. Clothes drying and drying are like sunshine. They neither use electricity, but also play a role in the disinfection of the sun's ultraviolet rays. U.S. families are more focused on enjoying home appliances and seldom consider using less power. The air conditioning in the house is mostly a central control program. It is used in a single room, and the full room is powered by electricity. The refrigerator is always large and stores something to eat on a monthly basis, and winter does not use outdoor natural cold storage. Clothes dryers, even if the family economy is included in poor households, are mostly home-made. In Africa, the majority of the people are simply drying their clothes on the grass or outdoor ropes and making full use of the sun that nature has given them. It can be said that the majority of developing countries have generally saved living energy and made valuable contributions to saving human resources.

The resources on the earth are limited. The author looks forward to the United States making a “world leader” or “leading the world” in saving energy and living in the United States. The realization of the vision of “energy independence” by US politicians at an early date will also give more oil production and turmoil to the United States. The fierce Middle East took the gospel they had long expected.