If you look closely at what has happened to energy consumption, you will find that there has been no savings, that the touted savings are based upon "trickery" (especially in the choice of yardsticks used to measure savings), or the savings has resulted only because the incidence of cost has been transferred elsewhere and is not considered!
Let us look at the following areas:
The following are common to cars, homes, schools, offices, and airliners, and even whole communities; they should be repeated. Here goes:
Parents, scared by violence (CO2 violence), want to drive their kids to school more.
And, there is one more (at least one more). More anxiety joy rides. "I just have to get out." Out of the house, out of town. We are rushing about trying to escape, and then there is the return trip. A bit "lemming-like," wouldn't you say? Ever wonder what sets the lemmings off?
Never forget that it is not just energy and money. It is good people made sick and troubled, all for the continuation of the huge lie that we have become.