How much Energy (and therefor money) one region can waste...

This article shows, how much energy is lost just because stereos, computers and so on are left on standby.
While in some cases, a stand-by-mode is surely making sense, in others it doesn't. And guess what, most new appliances don't even have a real on-off switch but only a standby-switch, so you often can't decide wether you want to go standby or actually turn it off...