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Something I never would've thunked ………..air tools cost 4X the energy than the equivalent electric tools to operate . The past 4 days I've been involved in an energy study at the plant and this was one point that was driven in . We have people in worldwide . We have 24 very large compressors running at the plant in which we discovered the possibility of shutting 4 of these down . Just these savings added up to over 580,000 G . I would figure the air tools , motors etc to cost a bit more to operate , but our expert says electric vs. air pneumatic represents a 94% energy savings . Hm...………...I haven't used my air tools at home in quite a while . My biggest lesson learned here was not to work 11 straight days and nights without a break .