City employees could face criminal charges if they set their thermostats below 78 degrees Fahrenheit (25.5 Celsius). Nevertheless, electricity usage has reached near record levels.

Nevertheless, electricity usage has reached near record levels.

For most of China s modernization drive, electricity consumption has grown faster than output, not slower.

He argued that this agenda could cut gasoline consumption significantly in a matter of years rather than decades.

The university expects to have reduce energy consumption by 87 over time, justifying an expensive initial investment in the pump.

Though higher airline ticket prices may reduce purchases, airlines reduce oil consumption only when they cancel flights.

Even fully operational, on average, it supports only about 1.7 of electricity demand in China in the year of 2011, when the Chinese electricity demand reached 4692.8 TWh.

Cut back on sugar.

Rich countries are often eager to tell poor countries what to do how to run national policies, how to reconstruct themselves after a hurricane or flood, even how to cut down on energy use in the poor countries.

Water consumption rose nine fold and energy use thirteen fold.

This air conditioner consumes a lot of electricity.

Low hanging fruit Consumption.

Reduce consumption of edible oil

In South Africa, major cities are subject to regular power outages as electric utility Eskom periodically shuts down parts of its distribution system to take the pressure off the aging national grid.

As important, a bureaucratic meltdown is needed.

They are trying to keep costs down.

They are trying to keep costs down.

They are trying to keep costs down.

The government is trying to bring down inflation.

You need to slow down.

You need to slow down.

Japan's consumption of rice is decreasing.

Japan's consumption of rice is decreasing.

SO, do you raise or lower taxes.

It is a good idea to lower the age limit.

They did not agree to bring down the price.

I think we should lower the price.

I think we should reduce the price.

Tom has been trying to lower his expenses.

We must try to bring down costs.

The demand is much bigger than supply so many countries use load shedding (planned rolling blackouts) to manage the electricity distribution.

Two examples suffice to illustrate the impact the price of rice has tripled while consumption of electricity is down by two thirds from two decades ago.

But consumption is not an ethical aim.

Water consumption has increased to 430 liters.

But joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

Alcohol consumption is increasing every year.

The government is promoting the use of domestically made products.

For example, an increase in direct taxes, such as income tax, can reduce consumption by twice as much as energy and carbon taxes that raise the same amount of revenue.

We have to reduce the cost to a minimum.

We must reduce energy demand.

We have cut back production by 20 .

Television can dull our creative power.

I think we should lower the price.

I think we should reduce the price.

Poland uses coal for 98 of its electricity production, and South Africa uses coal for about 50 of its electricity production.