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Originally Posted by senior citizen
Our adult children and grandchildren are HUGE into the green movement.
Ditto for other relatives in California who keep sending us circulating emails about not having the pipeline come down from Alaska, etc., etc., etc.
For those who live in a colder climate who must use home heating oil and have seen the prices escalate to as much as their yearly property taxes, gasoline isn't really the big deal in a small walkable town that has all the services one needs, meaning not a lot of driving unless heading off to visit or on vacation. We use very little gasoline but a lot of home heating oil.
But there are folks in New England who go CRAZY trying to avoid purchasing heating oil........so yank out their baseboard hot water heating system to put in pellet stoves and regular wood stoves, plus wood furnaces all over the house.......then have to chop and split **wood all year long to keep the fires going (and the smoke does contribute to breathing issues).........I find it a lot easier to turn one of the four themostats either up or down. **not killing the trees.
We have kids who have taught their kids "not to flush" if it is yellow.
So, we've lived in both these worlds. They recycle. It's all admirable.
We have switched from paper cards to electronic ecards ........that saves paper and postage.
We've always bought smaller sized cars, but brand new. After this last visit to The Villages, my husband so admired the SMOOTH ROADS down there that he immediately purchased a full sized new gas guzzler car similar to the one he rented at Orlando International Airport. It was retired man's one luxury.
Upon returning and picking up our one year old car at the long term parking, he realized how bad our pot holed roads are up here.........so he's going the opposite way from "being into saving of the planet."
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The planet doesn't need saving when it is done with us it will shudder and like the dinasoars we will be gone and 200 years after that there will be little trace that humans were ever here.
Being from New England I did cut wood and burned wood to keep warm not to mention saving a little on a $750.00 per month oil bill. It kept me in shape as well. Burning wood is not killing trees firewood is basically wood from trees that are dying or trees that need to be removed so that other trees grow more healthy and to make room for new seedlings. Not to mention the fact that most of the wood comes from the great N'oreasters blowing the trees down and we need to cut them up and dispose of them.