I suddenly retrieved the overall distance of the N-BOX so far from the HONDA portal site and found it to be 27,250 km.

It is roughly 3/4 of the distance around the entire circumference of the earth.

Basically, I only use the car to go back and forth between the train station or Supermarket and my home, but even so, it is still 1.5 round trips to and from Colorado, USA.

However, I believe that this kind of "totalitarian" view of things has its merits and demerits.

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For example,

(1) If I can improve myself by 1% every day, one year from now I will be (1+0.01)^365 = 37.8, or 38 times what I am now.

(2) I just wasted one sheet of paper a day. However, if all the people in the country implemented this, one billion sheets of paper per day would be wasted(*).

(*) This seems to be a phrase often used by students in their self-criticism during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

(3) If Japanese TVs were unplugged, the savings in standby power alone would be enough to shut down all the power plants in Shikoku.

I think these are the equivalent.

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As for (1) above, I think "1%" is used to mean "small", but many of us do not have that "1%.

Edison is said, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% effort," which is what he meant (we are mediocre).

On the other hand, considering (3) above, the "power-saving request" issued by the government now seems to be quite effective.

Aside from that.

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Now, the next year, 2023, will be the year that I predicted as early as 2014 that this would be the year that Japan's electricity use would begin to decline.

Due to the prior shutdown of facilities by electric power companies in conjunction with deregulation of the electric power industry and the shutdown of nuclear power plants, it is clear that there is no "electricity surplus" at this time.

However, what the actual "power usage fee" is is another matter.

After a little research, I found that there is already an article that says "Japan's electricity consumption has decreased by 12% in 10 years" -- but -- I'm not sure what it means.

In any case, next year, I will do a proper data reading and objectively summarize my predictions from 9 years ago.