“TORONTO (UPC) - Canadian homes are. heated more efficiently than anywhere else in the western world except Sweden, an expert on energy con- servation said Wednesday.

Lee . Schipper . .of University’ of California at Berkeley said Sweden had the ‘most efficiently. heated. homes in the West, followed by Canada, with West Germany in third place.

Schipper told a meeting of the American ‘Association for the Advancement of Science that: Americans were saving the equivalent of © four to five million barrels‘of oil a day because of con” servation. That was annual ‘saving of about 10 per cent of the energy used |

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in 1973, a year of peak, consumption, he said.

“The marketplace stimulated encouraging energy savings between 1972 and 1978,” he said. “Con- sidering that they were largely unplanned, these results seem remarkable .

“Advances..in energy- conscious architecture and remedial techniques, such as finding and sealing leaks in existing buildings, will probably mean that residential energy con- sumption will hardly in- crease at all, and may fall in the near’ future in key developed countries.”

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the near future in key developed countries.”

Schipper said he was studying energy con- sumption and conservation in several countries for the départment of energy.

He said he had found many countries. were using much less energy for central heating than'they did several years ago. In the nor- theastern U.S., Sweden and West Germany, oil savings ranged from 15 to 25 per cent, and the U.S. and Prance had both significantly reduced natural gas consumption.

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Electricity consumption, which soared during the

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appliance market, Schipper

said. New models. were. increasing fuc)-efficient, he

added.

“With so much saved in so short a time, conservation has proved that it can save ‘billions of dollars. With public and private funding for conservation on the upswing, we must watch programs to see where we can reap the greatest benefit.

“Ironically, rising energy prices have brought with them investment, innovation and ingenuity. Further decontrol of cnergy prices will push prices higher and stimulate conservation. In the United States, we are

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