Discover Your Own Energy-Saving $uper Powers With the Energy-Efficiency Tips and Resources on The Alliance to Save Energy's Consumer Web Site!
The Alliance to Save Energy offers consumers all the information they need to save money, increase comfort, and even reduce pollution through energy efficiency.
- Cut your home utility bills — freeing money for other things.
- Increase your comfort.
- Reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
- Increase national security.
- Relax while energy-efficient technologies and products continue producing these benefits for you day after day, year after year.
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We've updated our state-by-state winter energy facts sheets for the 2008 – 2009 winter heating season. Each fact sheet describes how much home heating bills are likely to rise or fall compared with last winter’s bills, based on fuel costs in each state. Depending on heating fuel use, some homes will face higher costs, while others may see a decrease in heating expense. The sheets also provide energy efficiency tips to help cut heating and other home energy bills.
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President Bush recently signed into law new consumer tax credits for energy efficiency home improvements, as well as purchases of plug-in hybrid vehicles. These provisions were included in H.R. 1424, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which the president signed on October 3, 2008. The homeowner tax credits are largely the same – but not identical – to those that expired at the end of 2007, and begin again on January 1, 2009.
For details on the consumer tax credits, check out our recently updated Energy-Efficiency Home and Vehicle Tax Credits web page.
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To motivate, inform and empower Americans consumers take simple yet important steps to save money at the pump by being more fuel efficient, the Alliance to Save Energy, in partnership with The Wal-Mart Foundation and a number of other organizations, created the Drive $marter Challenge on May 20th, 2008. Check out these radio PSAs (in English and Spanish) for a fun introduction to the Challenge!
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 Switching the types of light bulbs we use at home is a small but effective way to save money and reduce pollution. This video explains why compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs make sense and why people should make the switch. This video was developed by Common Craft.
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Power blackouts and brownouts will increase in years to come. Here’s how consumers can easily and comfortably lighten the power load in their own homes — and cut energy bills and pollution, too.
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The Alliance to Save Energy offers consumers a wide variety of tips to fit individual pocketbooks, including no-cost and low-cost money and energy saving tips.
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Perhaps Super Heroes with Super Powers can save the day and come to the rescue with energy solutions as our nation battles high energy prices, galloping demand, tight supplies, increased pollution, and energy security threats. Responding to consumer angst over high energy bills, the Alliance to Save Energy has taken to the nation's
 A better way to save energy?? | airwaves with new, humorous Super Powers TV and radio PSAs and extends the campaign to the web with webisodes and even a "secret web site"— which are part of a total Alliance public service campaign to help consumers lower their energy bills and the nation reduce its energy use.
Check out the campaign storyboard, scripts, news release and see/hear the PSAs. Washington Post coverage. Also: ClickZ coverage. |
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Curious to see how your car's fuel economy compares? Find out with this calculator from the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The Alliance to Save Energy and the DOE Offer Consumers Smart Energy Tips and Resources to Reduce Home Energy Bills and the Nation’s Energy Use.
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