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The Bureau of Printing and Engraving budgeted $14.35 million in FY2017 for "Communication, utilities, and misc. charges." If we assume that 100% of that is electricity costs, and that electricity costs 12¢/kWh, then we get somewhere in the region of 120 million kWh in FY2017 to produce USD. That is 0.1% the annual electricity consumption of Argentina.



Just checked the Treasury 2017 budget which is around 3 billion.




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