Point 12 strikes me as the most important. We really need to take a hard look at what we use energy for.
Wili, it is quite well known what we use the energy for. The broad picture is shown nicely by Shared Humanity above. In Germany that is similar - a bit less for transportation and more for industry but qualitatively the same situation.
For a individuum in Germany (and quite similar in US) I would rank personal energy consumption like this:
1) Most energy is used for producing the things you buy - machines (like cars), electronics, food, ...
2) Transportation (cars, flights)
3) Heating / cooling your home
4) smallest part: Electricity you use at your home (mainly cooling and heating in the kitchen)
So to save energy you should:
1) use your old stuff as long as possible, buy reused things, buy long lasting high quality things, avoid fashion/life-style stuff you have to buy every 1-2 years again
2) use trains, busses, bikes
3) insulate your home, use efficient heat pumping or calorific value boiler, use moderate temperatures (wear a T-shirt in summer and a pullover in winter indoors)
4) buy a smaller A++ fridge (or how a efficient device is rated at your place), use LED instead of bulb - such things pay off very fast
A lot of those things are regulated in EU to lower consumption. Only transportation is very poorly regulated - just to please our car industry
E.g. bulbs are not allowed anymore, there are laws forcing you to update your heat equipment (yearly house search by the chimney sweeper), regulations for minimum thermal insulation if you touch your houses face), taxes for petrol and electricity (more than 50% of the energy costs for consumers are allready taxes).
What is poorly regulated is No.1 - the things. It makes not much sense if the kWh used to produce something is saved only by moving to other places in the world.
That is the a big problem in our global world: Similar to Apple not paying tax for its incredible profits by moving the profits to a tax haven like Ireland the production moves to countries with low energy costs, unfair conditions of work or bad environment protection - that does not help anyone - it is only good for a few individuals and for a short-term. I think taxes or customs could help to address that problem.
E.g. if one country has a carbon tax and the other doesn't - it would make sense to take customs charges to take the difference at the border. In this way the consumer has a chance to feel the real costs and to make a proper choice.
But to come back to points 1-12): While point 12) is surely the easiest way to get to the future it will not be a nice future without points 1-11). We will need energy and it must be emission free. And it must be emission free _very_ soon. Therefore, all those points must be done right now. Maybe you skip a few points and add a few more appropriate for your country, since that points are specially for Germany. E.g. in other countries off-shore wind, nuclear or geothermal could be ranked higher for good local reasons. It just has to be renewable in less than a generation.