It pays to be frugal
Damn straight. I use the old Techumseh rototiller my great grandmother left when she died. It was built around 1938 or so.
I’m betting that its probably earth friendlier for me to continue using it than it is to manufacture a new energy efficient model.
Bingo! A number of years I started a company that does energy efficiency work in mostly industrial applications... I won’t get into the details of it but some time ago, I crunched some numbers of past jobs and realized that our small company had collectively reduced electrical power for our customers by thousands of megawatts. Do my customers think they are doing something good vis a vis climate change? Some no doubt are motivated by that pat on the back, an atttaboy and perhaps even some incentive dollars from a guvmint somewhere... but for the most part, they are doing it because it makes good business sense and it helps their bottom line.
As for me personally, I’m in the midst of building a house in a northern clime that will be totally off-grid. People often have commended me for this thinking that I’m motivated because of some deeply held philosophical leaning as to doing something ‘good for the environment’...... I have to correct them and say, “well, now that you mention it, the reason I’m doing this is because I have absolutely no trust that the electrical grid isn’t being totally driven into the ground because of the influence of a bunch of envirowackos with all the wind and solar that they are trying to push on to it. When they have totally messed it up, I still want to comfortably operate my house.”
I think that there is another point here... if a person believes in the climate change nonsense as proclaimed by Al Gore et al, they probably aren’t really that swift. Somebody who calls BS to what truly is BS is in fact much smarter. Since reducing your energy bills is all about being smart, which side logically succeeds the best at it?