I used to drive closer to about 24,000 miles a year, but at the time I was living, working, going to school, and visiting my girlfriend all in cities pretty far from each other. In the last year I\’ve finished school and gotten married, so my driving has gone down considerably. I might do closer to about 15,000 a year, but I haven\’t really been keeping track.

Also, I checked and found out that the heater in my apartment is gas, but we\’ve literally never turned it on. Just due to circulation and such (we live in one of the upper levels of a south-facing apartment near the top of a hill), our apartment is always warmer than it is outside, which is great during the winter but can be insufferable at times during the summer.

In 2000, when I had been living alone in a different apartment for about a year (including one winter), I received the long form of the Census survey, and one of the questions they asked was how I heated my home. I came to that question and realized I had never considered it, because the issue had never come up. I searched around the place for a while before concluding that, in fact, I had no method of heating my home, not even a space heater.

If I owned (rather than rent) my flat, I would do some work to the heating and insulation systems so it would not be horribly ill-designed and energy-wasting as it is right now.

Paul Mobbs said that the energy use for the average person around here can be evenly split into 4 parts: food, electricity, heating, and transport (if I remember correctly).

I’m sure my biggest energy hog, though, is my car. I drive about 20,000 miles a year. At about 25 miles per gallon, that’s 800 gallons of unleaded a year, or a little over 2 gallons a day.