Mountain lion kills my battery

I have a mid-2009 MacBook pro. When running Lion, my battery life was around six hours. After installing mountain lion, my battery life is about an hour and fifteen minutes.

I am also having battery problems since installing ML. This is a MBP 13" early 2011 purchased August 2011, and before ML battery gave 7 7.5 hours. I recently monitored consumption running Safari, iTunes, Thunderbird.
time          %age Battery          Hours left
18.30               92                         6.53
18.45               88                         6.39
19.00               84                         5.04
19.30               76                         5.11
19.45               72                         5.02
20.00               71                         3.52
21.45               44                         3.06
So in 2 1/4 hours used over 50% of battery.   No good when I want to work away from base.
Are Apple really aware if this and are they working on an upgrade. I don't want to revert to Lion as there are so many good new features in ML, also am getting the 'beach ball' several times when opening sites in Safari.

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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
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