No See, No mind, No thought

We seem to be caught up in a time where the only instance we tend to take notice is when it affects us directly and adversely at that instance. There was a time in the 1850’s that the Thames was so filled with sewage and waste that one couldn’t walk by it because of the stench, only then did London get a sewer system in place. Mileage and efficiency are the key terms of today, with every manufacturer looking at providing motor vehicles which can take you farther for less, all this because I see a direct increase in my spending otherwise on fuel and thus my financial matters. It is visible to my eye and transactions and thus I give it that importance. While allowing my wanderings across the universe of my mind, a certain nagging feeling of something missing with the same topic kept coming in. In a few days, the time required for thoughts and paths to assemble, it is truly amazing the way I allow myself to be fooled simple because I do not see the damage, because it does not show itself in any physical aspect or have any direct contact with me. It is that of electricity consumption.
My household consumes an average amount of electricity and the only physical reality of it hits once a month when I pay the bill but can I see electricity like I can see petrol. Do I see a system where I can use less of it to do more things. Consciously I do not and cannot therefore I do not even realize it. In my physics classes in school we had studied energy and electricity and run through the details in a theoretical without thinking of it in any other way. It was to be learnt and forgotten and that’s how it was done. I wonder why we’ve never gone into thinking of how to make appliances more energy efficient, the only exception to this is when it comes to air-conditioners. We burn up coal in abundance to make electricity, we run in along hundreds of miles to get that energy home to use and then waste more than half of it, out it goes as heat. Why are we wasting so much? Is it because we don’t see the waste?