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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox
My point is not that the USA can become 100% non-dependent on fossil fuels overnight, but that, rather than drilling for more oil, it should be finding ways to use fossil fuels more efficiently and to focus on renewables, just as many other countries have successfully done.
The country has continually avoided doing so because the coal and oil industries have so much influence over Government officials. (Why else would SUVs be allowed to be counted as trucks in order to fudge automobile fuel economy figures?)
So many people in The Villages refuse to make any changes to their lifestyle, even though most of them have children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren who are going to be the ones bearing the brunt of our continued insistence on using huge amounts of the Earth's resources and polluting the water and air.
Stop making excuses; start taking action.
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So, what lifestyle change actions should we start? Should we all go solar, quit air conditioning, stop driving fossil fuel vehicles, eliminate air flights to see family, quit riding fossil fuel buses, trains, boats? Should I buy a Tesla and power it by solar. Should we stop using water systems and sewer systems powered by fossil fuel. Quit buying food that has been grown and delivered by the help of fossil fuel?
I get buying a car with good gas milage and not wasting cooling and heating energies. But the question is to inform us what else you would recommend that we individually should do to eliminate the dependency of using fossil fuels for 80 % of our energy needs.
It is easy to say stop making excuses and start taking actions.
Please tell us your experiences that will help us eliminate excuses.
Thanks