Happy Halloween! But ... what's powering your pumpkin?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- 2 --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4973891917352186" data-ad-slot="3079724116" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1 class="head" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 32px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Happy Halloween! But ... what's powering your pumpkin?</h1><div><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/">http://www.csmonitor.com</a><br /><h2 class="subhead" itemprop="description" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Happy Halloween: Trick or treat? Solar or oil? Even Halloween jack-o'-lanterns have joined the energy debate. When the Department of Energy promoted clean energy and efficiency as pumpkin-carving suggestions, the US oil and gas lobby served up its own Halloween ideas. </div></h2><div class="sByline" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">By <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/About/Staff/David-J.-Unger" rel="author" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="ui-author" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">David J. Unger</span></a>, <span class="ui-staffline" style="font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Staff writer</span> / October 31, 2013</div><div class="podStoryGal p402_hide" style="background-color: white; border: 4px solid rgb(234, 242, 238); color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 253px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 8px; position: relative; z-index: 1;"><div class="thePhoto" style="float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 380px;"><div class=" jcarousel-skin-storygal" style="height: 253px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><div class="jcarousel-container jcarousel-container-horizontal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 380px;"><div class="jcarousel-clip jcarousel-clip-horizontal" style="height: auto; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 380px; z-index: 2;"><ul class="jcarousel-list jcarousel-list-horizontal" id="pgallerycarousel" style="left: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 0px; width: 490px; z-index: 1;"><li class="jcarousel-item jcarousel-item-horizontal jcarousel-item-1 jcarousel-item-1-horizontal" jcarouselindex="1" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; height: auto; line-height: 1.3; list-style: none; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 380px;"><a class="thickbox" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/2013/1030/1030-pumpkin/17329921-1-eng-US/1030-pumpkin_full_600.jpg" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" itemprop="image" src="http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/2013/1030/1030-pumpkin/17329921-1-eng-US/1030-pumpkin_full_380.jpg" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></a></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="podC" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 208px;"><div class="pod" style="background-color: #f2f7f4; font-size: 11px; height: auto !important; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; min-height: 209px; padding: 10px;"><div class="caption" id="pgallerycarousel_caption" style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.6em; padding: 0px;" title="Photo Caption">Jack-o'-lanterns wait to be set up for the Keene Pumpkin Festival earlier this month in Keene, N.H. 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It's renewables or fossil fuels?</div><div class="promotion-tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="promotion-tag-p" style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">RECOMMENDED: <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2013/0530/US-energy-in-five-maps-infographics/1.-Oil-gas-and-coal" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">US energy in five maps (infographics)</a></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Judging by DOE's stencils, the future is in cleaner energy and less of it. The stencils depict wind turbines, solar panels, compact fluorescent light bulbs, and other emblems of alternative energy, with DOE encouraging would-be carvers to "energize your neighborhood" this "Energyween." It's a fitting end to October, which was designated National Energy Action Month by <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Barack+Obama" rel="nofollow" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="Title: Barack Obama">President Obama</a> in late September. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">"[S]o while you’re stocking up on pumpkins, fall sweaters and Halloween candy, it's also a great time to think about actions you can take to save energy and money at home," reads a post announcing the stencils on DOE's website from earlier this month.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Shorter days and cooler weather come together in October to begin a steady annual rise in electricity use as homeowners turn up the heat and keep lights on longer. In 2011, commercial and residential lighting made up about 12 percent of the nation's total electricity use. In 2009, space heating made up 41.5 percent of total residential energy use.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">But the stencils don't exactly offer a comprehensive look at US energy – at least not according to the American Petroleum Institute (API), which represents the nation's oil and gas companies.</div><div class="body-view-extra" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">RECOMMENDED:</b> <a href="http://www.monitorfrontiermarkets.com/csm5" style="color: #205d87; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_new">Monitor Frontier Markets Free Trial. Intelligent analysis on events in frontier/emerging countries.</a></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">"[W]hen the Energy Department blog highlighted ways to 'energize your neighborhood' with a series of energy-themed pumpkin stencils in time for Halloween – but didn’t include any for the sources of 62 percent of the energy Americans use – we thought maybe it was some kind of holiday trick," reads a post on API's website. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Renewables made up 12 percent of the nation's electricity mix in 2012, and while solar and wind showed tremendous growth last year, most analysts predict fossil fuels will continue to dominate the electric grid in coming decades.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">So it's a tall order for the Obama administration, which wants to reduce the 40 percent of carbon emissions that come from fossil-fuel power plants. 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