Saving Money and Energy

To demonstrate the important connections between our individual energy use and the world’s environment, economy and security, the Alliance to Save Energy, the American Gas Association (AGA), The Dow Chemical Company Inc., and 27 additional Power is in Your Hands partners today launched the 6° of Energy Efficiency Challenge by making cost-effective energy-efficiency improvements to an old row house in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol owned by a family struggling to meet rising energy costs.

As heat waves blanket the country and the nation's two most populous states, New York and California, as well as other locales had been suffering from blackouts this summer, the Alliance to Save Energy calls on consumers to switch energy- intensive home tasks to off-peak hours and to otherwise use energy more efficiently to reduce soaring summer electricity bills, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and potential for blackouts or brownouts.

As a heat wave blankets parts of the country, the Alliance to Save Energy calls on Americans to be more energy-efficient to reduce soaring summer electricity bills, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and potential for blackouts or brownouts simultaneously while also helping our nation's energy security.

With global oil and U.S. gasoline prices reaching new highs on worries about Middle East violence and pipeline explosions in Nigeria leading to supply disruptions, the Alliance to Save Energy urges motorists to be more fuel efficient to benefit the nation’s energy security as well as their own pocketbooks.

It's time for Super Heroes with Super Powers to 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.