Listed are either the national or state average for each category, our annual or monthly average, and the 90% reduction goal.
Gasoline:
national usage per person, per year: 500 gallons (100%)
our yearly average, per person: 375 gallons (75%)
90% reduction: 38 gallons a year
Electricity:
national usage per household, per month: 1100kWh (100%)
our household monthly average: 740kWh (67%)
90% reduction: 113kWh a month
Natural Gas:
Missouri usage per household, per month: 70ccf (100%)
our household monthly average: 20ccf (28%)
90% reduction: 7ccf a month
Water:
national usage per household, per month: 3900 gallons (100%)
our household monthly average: 4400 gallons (113%)
90% reduction: 390 gallons a month
Garbage (not including recycling):
national average per household, per week: 40lbs (100%)
our household weekly average: 2.5lbs (6%)
90% reduction: 4lbs a week
The gas and the water are going to be the hardest to reduce.
Without a water collection system or gray water system it will be almost impossible. I am going to try to get our usage down to 50%.
With our now large family, Dan needing his car to get his tools back and forth to work, and my family being 112 miles away, 130 gallons a year is just not going to happen. Though, we're going to try to reduce our consumption as much as possible.
Correction:
ReplyDeleteI'm not exactly sure what I was doing when I got our calculation for gasoline usage, but we don't use 650 gallons per person, per year. We use 350 gallons. Which takes us from around 130% of the national average to 75% of the national average. Much better.