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ARCO ISLAND, Fla. (AP) —A
erry carrying 120 passengers
joollided early Monday in heavy
og with a smaller boat about 15
miles off Marco Island, killing one
oerson and injuring two others,
one seriously, authorities said.
' | he person killed and the two
injured were on the smaller boat,
said Jorge Aguilera, spokesman
for Collier County Emergency
Mldical Services. Their names
werfe not immediately available.
Ea rthquake rocks
San Francisco Bay
■SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — An
earthquake sent a jolt through
the San Francisco Bay area
Sunday afternoon but no dam
age was immediately reported.
■The quake had a 4.4 magni-
tule, the U.S. Geological Survey
reported. It was centered 11
mles east of San Jose.
■Earthquakes with a magni-
tule stronger than 4.0 can
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allow children with disabilities to interact.
E er-cap it a power consumption low
In California despite overall usage
■.OS ANGELES (AP) — California’s power
Tilis has led neighboring states to accuse the
jolden State of hogging electricity. But the num-
tell a different story.
B/alifomia does use a vast amount of electricity,
it consumes less on a per-capita basis than all
| rtfifcr states except Rhode Island.
■fhc mild climate and less heavy industry than
)thc -states are part of the reason. Experts say cred-
ta so must go to stringent conservation measures,
■■■it's true we’re big, and it's true we didn’t build
' kit of power plants.... But we're not energy hogs
g P JujU,” said Arthur Rosenfeld, who sits on the five-
^ ne iber California Energy Commission. “We're
7 p.lMhnost as good as Western. Europe, and Western
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■Among the 50 states, only Texas consumes more
mergy — measured by its total use of electricity,
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alifornia: big, not wasteful
California has one of the lowest per capita consumptions of energy in
the United States, ranking No. 47.
bp 10 states
btal annual energy consumption
er capita, in millions of British
Jiermal units (Btu).
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verage: 351
laska 1,144
ouisiana 940
yoming 892
exas 588
orth Dakota 555
entucky 463
ndiana 458
labama 457
est Virginia 446
aine 445
alifornia 240
lote: Includes coal, natural gas,
letroleum and electricity.
Electricity usage
Annual per capita electricity
consumption for selected states, in
millions of Btu.
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average: 40
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natural gas and oil — than California, the nation’s
most populous state.
However, California ranks 47th in per-capita
energy use — well below No. 4 Texas, No. 20
Washington and No. 27 Oregon, according to the
Energy Information Administration, which is part
of the U.S. Energy Department.
When looking specifically at per-capita elec
tricity consumption, California ranks 49th, at 24.2
million BTUs, the agency said. Californians’ per-
capita electricity use is only 60 percent of the na
tional average.
For air conditioning alone, a typical Califor
nia household uses one-third the amount of elec
tricity consumed by a household in Texas or,
Florida, according to the U.S. Energy Depart
ment’s 1997 Residential Energy Consumption
Survey.
California has “a different climate, so even if
you do have warm summers, they’re
not humid, so you don’t have the big,
huge air conditioning load you see in
Florida or Texas,” said Robert Latta,
the survey’s manager at the Energy In
formation Administration.
California also uses electricity, as
well as natural gas, oil and coal, more
wisely than most states thanks to ag
gressive conservation efforts started
during the oil shocks of the early 1970s,
federal and state data indicate.
Key to those efforts are stringent
standards for new homes and commer
cial buildings that dictate such things as
the types of windows and lighting and
the amount of insulation.
“If it is not the leading state, they are
at least tied for it” in efficiency stan
dards, said Ed Wisniewski, deputy di
rector of the Boston-based Consortium
for Energy Efficiency. “Historically,
they have been very progressive, and
many of the programs we advocate nationally were
started in California.”
California’s per-capita use is lower because
many energy-intensive industries are located else
where. Aluminum smelting and paper manufac
turing, for example, are clustered in the Pacific
Northwest.
The industries that are located in California, are
generally more efficient in their use of electricity
than industries elsewhere, according to 1998 fig
ures from the California Energy Commission,
which shapes state energy policy.
Companies use just 0.2 kilowatt-hours of elec
tricity to produce every dollar’s worth of goods and
services in California,’while businesses in neigh
boring states use twice as much, according to com
mission figures.
“The concept that California is a big, wasteful
state really isn’t true,” said Latta, of the Energy In
formation Administration.
There is still room for improvement in Califor
nia, particularly when it comes to conservation.
California ranks just 17th among all states in
spending by utilities on energy-efficiency pro
grams as part of their revenue.
In 1998, California utilities reduced spending
on energy-efficiency programs, though the current
crisis has prompted the major utilities to reverse
that, according to the American Council for an En
ergy-Efficient Economy.
Gov. Gray Davis recently released a $404 mil
lion conservation program designed to control
growth in the state’s demand for electricity.
Maintaining energy efficiency and keeping de
mand in check as the population grows will be
among the toughest challenges in the years ahead.
Energy use per capita is up 10 percent over
the past two decades. Californians used about
7,000 kilowatt hours per year in 1980, compared
with about 7,700 kilowatt hours last year, ac
cording to scientists at Lawrence Berkeley Na
tional Laboratory.
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