IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/energy/v1y1976i2p165-178.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Energy cost of living

Author

Listed:
  • Herendeen, Robert
  • Tanaka, Jerry

Abstract

We evaluate the energy requirements of household expenditures for all products from the 1960–1961 Consumer Expenditure Survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We use more detail and employ more accurate energy intensities than in a previous, preliminary work (R. Herendeen, Affluence and energy demand, Mechan. Engng, October, 1974), and also introduce a modest analysis of errors. We find that, within error bounds, one “universal” curve shows the dependence of energy impact of expenditures for households of 2 through 6 members. This curve bends down somewhat; that is, it is less than linear. The single-member household falls below the “universal” curve, apparently because of reduced purchases of actual energy. A typical poor household exerts ~65% of its energy requirements through its purchases of residential energy and auto fuel; for an affluent household, this fraction drops to 35%. We also find evidence that urban life is approximately 15% less energy intensive (Btu per dollar expended) than rural non-farm life.

Suggested Citation

  • Herendeen, Robert & Tanaka, Jerry, 1976. "Energy cost of living," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 1(2), pages 165-178.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:1:y:1976:i:2:p:165-178
    DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(76)90015-3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0360544276900153
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/0360-5442(76)90015-3?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:1:y:1976:i:2:p:165-178. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.