Posted on 02/22/2015 11:53:50 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Another lecture by a leftist telling us why we all suck. And I bet this schmuck uses more energy than I do, by the way.
Yep. I haven’t posted any preaching from ‘Mother Nature Network’ in a while. ;)
It’s just endless from those people. They don’t have lives. All they know how to do is hate.
“LEDs are consuming milliamps”
That’s some o’ that there science what the climate denier types don’t believe in.
I remember a study / forecast that an economics professor did in reference to the Carter Years before Obama was elected predicting the same thing.
He has some name that he was using that Econ Professors apply to the shopping experience when things are on sale.
If you plan on spending money on cloths, you go to the mall and you buy shirts that are normally 10 dollars for 1 dollar, you have 10 dollars to spend, so you buy 10 shirts.
You didn’t save 9*10 dollars, in your mind you might think that, in fact you didn’t save anything because all 10 dollars were spent.
It's called PROGRESS. Something MARXISTS/COMMUNISTS/LIBERALS can't embrace.
I'm willing to bet that all of these liberals have large homes with lots of energy-consuming appliances.
I have no problem with advocating using less energy ... free speech after all .... and it’s not such a bad idea to be less dependent energy wise.
However, I do have a problem with forcing less energy use ... which this article is not advocating by the way
I’m all for the minimalist lifestyle. In fact, I read this article in the print edition, sent my letter to the editor, he transcribed it for me, et voilá, here it is on your screen. I didn’t consume a single electron or photon.
They’re all control freaks.They want to mandate the size of your house,your car,what you eat,how many children you are allowed.
I lived with a save-the-planet guy that would go put in CFLs and buy an $8000 pellet stove and such... but when it came down to everyday life, he drove an SUV, would have every lightbulb and television going at once, routinely fall asleep on Friday/Saturday nights with the entire farmhouse light up like Ft. Knox, all the TVs going, with the Macintosh MC-240 tube amp cranking through a pair of Bozaks.
The best was in the summertime... he would open up the kitfhen and living room doors to the sunporch with Jalosie windows and crank the AC to cool the sun porch.
Whenever he went away for the weekend or on vacation, I was knocking $10/day off the power bill in the summertime, just by doing conservative stuff like turning off lights and ventilating the whole house at night when the air was cool and then sealing up the house in the morning... and the 21" thick stone walls kept the house cool just about all day long with no AC.
I have totally given up ironing.
I don't do laundry until it's up to the ceiling and I chock full my washing machine.
I cook by the pot and freeze...and voila...no cooking all winter long.
So what do I do with my savings?
What savings....They're always raising the rates and surcharges.
Thank you for posting the link to Marching Morons. I’ve been searching for years.
That's all I got from the article.
The article had an interesting jump from per household energy use in its 1950-2010 graph, but total usage in 1993-2009. Always be wary when the scales change or the item being measured changes.
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