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Nim Stant: Hi everyone. Welcome to the Global Thought Leader TV. My name is Nim Stant. I have an amazing, simple human guest in our studio today. Welcome John Rubio in the house.

John Rubio: Thank you for having me and thank you very much. I’m very happy to be here.

Nim Stant: Thank you for being here.

Uh, John just won our international impact book awards. Um, his book won the environment, uh, category, uh, for the book author of the book, the US, right? The US 2023 high power bill crisis. Cut your high power bills in half today. The Simple Art of Reducing Energy Consumption, the Defensive Guide. So, wait a minute.

John Rubio: Yes.

Nim Stant: So, what inspired you to write a book about this?

John Rubio: Uh, really just being on Facebook and, and seeing, I’m in a private group back home in Tampa, Seminole Heights, and, and people were trying to get new estimates for sightings and roofing because their power bills are astronomic. They have new AC, they have new duct work, and the power bills are still huge.

Because they don’t correlate. It’s the heat produced in our house that makes our power bill so high. And most people think heat in the house, well it’s not winter. We’re talking a home with no heat means cold showers forever. Hot water uses a lot of energy. A home with no heat means no kitchen. No cooking.

No Pop Tarts. Because a toaster has electric heating on it. A house with no heat is no clothes dryer. So we produce so much heat in our homes. That’s what makes the power bill so high. So the guide is a 90 minute linear learning experience that teaches its readers effortlessly how to cut their power bills in half with simple decisions, simple reductions.

Nim Stant: So why do you think you are an expert in writing about this?

John Rubio: Well, I started back in 1995 to 1999 at Tampa Bay Tech High School. This is a trade high school. And this is where I learned air conditioning. So I’ve been in the Florida air conditioning trade trade about 30 years now. And, and I’ve always leaned towards having my clients have lower power bills, more efficient air conditioners, uh, less money going out in energy consumption every month.

So, uh, it’s really just being in a Facebook group, having an opportunity to see where I can help. I can make an impact on people sharing knowledge that I’ve approved of my life. And then, so that’s how it all started. It’s been a beautiful, beautiful whirlwind of true blessings and high favor to say the least.

Nim Stant: Wow. So, well then, for, to make it short, because, uh, you know, we might not have time to read the whole book, right? Uh, but it’s beautiful books. Thank you for, for doing this work. You know, all the research, all the tips, stuff like that. But, in the field work, how can we save the energy?

John Rubio: A couple of simple ones, uh, just looking at our heat consumption.

You gotta think the hot water heater is about probably 40 percent of your power bill is a hot water heater. So if you’re at home and you lift up your faucet and you wait five minutes and you can see steam coming out of the faucet.

Speaker 5: That’s me.

John Rubio: That is probably an extra 89 just to keep the hot water in.

From 120 to 140 because these these hot water tanks have internal timers, timers that can be turned down. So a lot of them are turned up by the previous tenant or the previous homeowner. Renters, renters are going to a new apartment, they lift up the water, steam’s coming out. What do you call maintenance?

High maintenance. I need an emergency work order to turn my hot water tank down immediately. So cutting down on that heat, maybe turning the breaker off to the hot water tank. You’re off on business for two weeks, The hot water tank is piping hot, piping hot, piping hot. Little things like this, drying your clothes in a coin op laundry.

You gotta think, look at every time you run your dryer, it’s 7. 7 every time you run your dryer. So every time your teenager throws a wrinkled hoodie in there, every day before school? And more on the weekends. Little things like this. We’re talking 5, 600 bills. And the power is going up. Power bill is increasing.

Price per kilowatt hour. So, we as Americans have to dominate and take control. Because it’s so simple. It’s just a way of thinking. Way of running your household in different ways. Uh, will make a big difference. And the final one I’ll say is your oven. That large electric oven. That thing’s made to cook raw turkeys.

Not fish sticks. Not dino nuggets. So you have a small little countertop oven. You put in your 89 cent burrito and you spend 89 cents to heat up the burrito, not four dollars in energy to heat up an 89 cent burrito in the big oven.

Nim Stant: John. I feel like I gotta go back to Thailand and use, you know, cut the wood and make a fire from there just to save the energy.

John Rubio: That’s right.

Nim Stant: I, I feel so guilty of your lecture right now. But you know, John, this is, this is very important. It’s not funny. You know, it’s very important because what if one day we run out of energy?

John Rubio: Right.

Nim Stant: This is

John Rubio: Correct. We’re very close. This is

Nim Stant: not about, it’s not just about saving money. It’s not about, it’s not just about cutting your bills in half, but it’s about what if we, what if we all want, you know, can make a difference, right?

By cutting everything, our behavior change in half.

John Rubio: overnight. Imagine that. Imagine that America’s residential energy consumption couldn’t happen overnight. That would lead to innovation. That would lead to new developments in the power field that we haven’t seen that we can’t get to because we’re stifled with too much, too much demand for power rolling blackouts, too many interruptions.

So everyone needs this. The power bills mean this power companies need this. We need this.

Nim Stant: And And I’m pretty sure that you’re going to keep writing about this, right? So for the information to be up to date, because things have changed.

John Rubio: Well, that’s the beauty of it. When we’re talking electrical appliances, they’ve been the same now for 50, 60 years.

In the 50s, they started doing nationwide uniformity. There’s permits for every city, for every new house. Meaning the new houses in LA, Seattle, Tampa, they’re all the same. They have the same ovens. They have the same hot water heaters. They have the same clothes dryers. Sure. So everything for the foreseeable future stays right online.

So that’s, that’s the beauty of being able to anticipate and make these small changes to bring our power consumption down tremendously.

Nim Stant: Okay. For a few words, just tell our audience of, um, what is the, what is your goal of, of doing this and what is the first action? Let’s say, what is the first action they need to take right now after watching this interview?

John Rubio: Recognize that heat production. Everyone has their AC that that’s what it costs money. It’s the heat that your home produces. Think about it back in caveman days. If you didn’t have a fire going, that was it. That could cost you your whole life because there was no heat. There was no fire to cook or to care for oneself.

So start seeing your home and the heat that it produces, the hot water tank that’s always on the oven. That’s on Three times a day, cooking dino nuggets and cooking little pies and cooking little cakes. Uh, you’re, you’re, you’re, you’re teenagers that are running that dryer 24 7 for a few wrinkled items.

Start looking at your home as how do we stop producing and wasting excessive heat and then the power bills won’t mock themselves.

Nim Stant: This is very, very important message and very impactful. Thank you for doing the work that you do. How can our audience reach out to you?

John Rubio: Oh, we have a website is johnrubiosimpleart.

com. So johnrubiosimpleart. com. You can go ahead and get the, uh, the, the publication there. Uh, we have, Being part of the Nymnstan universe, I’ve met so many excellent, excellent, excellent other, other professionals, other like minded people that now my expert is coming through and writing in columns and I’m getting more opportunities that I never imagined I would have when I was just on Facebook saying, let me correct this, you know, and now one year later, amazing things, beautiful things are happening and I couldn’t be any more grateful.

Nim Stant: Thank you so much for being here. Thank you. Love your energy, love your message, love the work that you do. Thank you.

John Rubio: I promise. Thank you. Thank you, Nim. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.