WASHINGTON, Dec 23, 2015 (AFP) - American household Christmas lights, a favourite holiday tradition, use up more electricity than some poorer countries -- such as El Salvador or Ethiopia -- do in a year.
That’s more than the national electricity consumption of many developing countries. El Salvador for one, uses 5.35 billion kilowatt hours, while Ethiopia consumes 5.30 billion and Tanzania 4.81 billion.
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