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# About 90% of the energy used in lighting a standard (incandescent) light bulb is lost as heat.

# Air conditioning uses 10 times more energy than a fan, therefore, it creates 10 times the pollutants.

# It takes half the output of the Alaskan pipeline to heat the air that escapes from all the homes in the US during a year.

# Cars and pick-up trucks are responsible for about 20% of the carbon dioxide released into the air.

# There are about 500 million automobiles on the planet, burning an average of 2 gallons of fuel a day. Each gallon releases 20 pounds of carbon dioxide into the air.

To know more bad facts about Earth read here

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/8319/savethearth.html]]> # On average, a person in the US uses energy two times more than a person in Japan or West Germany does, and 50 times more than a person in India.



# About 90% of the energy used in lighting a standard (incandescent) light bulb is lost as heat.



# Air conditioning uses 10 times more energy than a fan, therefore, it creates 10 times the pollutants.



# It takes half the output of the Alaskan pipeline to heat the air that escapes from all the homes in the US during a year.



# Cars and pick-up trucks are responsible for about 20% of the carbon dioxide released into the air.



# There are about 500 million automobiles on the planet, burning an average of 2 gallons of fuel a day. Each gallon releases 20 pounds of carbon dioxide into the air.



To know more bad facts about Earth read here



http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/8319/savethearth.html

]]> Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://mayuri.instablogs.com http://mayuri.instablogs.com Mayuri Majumdar It is really amusing how we all remember when Valentine’s Day is and do not even bother about serious issues. I mean how many of us really remember when Earth day is? I really think that we all should turn a bit more responsible towards our mother nature.

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