“Of course. But, changes are coming. Won’t hurt to start thinking about alternatives. You can still buy a cast iron hand operated water pump. They are cheap, too. My grandparents bathed in hot water in a regular bathtub with a drain but no water spigots. They had a big old cast iron stove in the kitchen that would get hot all over, heat the kitchen, bake bread, heat bath water all at once”
It’s ironic that - if things keep going the way they’re going (and I don’t see any reasonable alternative as to them changing) - Americans in 2100 may live under circumstances that are much the same as the Americans of 1900.
It may become more practical to live with little or no energy, than trying to live with energy that is luxury-priced and affordable only to the few....
- John
My grandparents both told me that 1895 was the Golden Age for America. They didn't mean the Gilded Age, which others have called that era, but simply the best life ever.