I consistently use less than $6 a month.....The Lessons of Frugality

misc.consumers.frugal-living | Saturday, July 27, 2002 2:17 AM | gigwatt

[dennisw]

This is not me who wrote the above...... Just putting it out there!

[LibWhacker]

misc.consumers.frugal-living

Here's another sample of the mankind-hating philosophy of those Green a**holes over there:

PA Miner rescue - not frugal?

Doesn't seem too frugal to me to spend all this money to try to rescue only 9 miners in PA. They haven't heard any sounds since three days ago. They are probably dead, and should just be laid to rest.

Love you,

Cindy

I use as much energy as I possible can, just to pi** a**holes like this off.

[dennisw]

I did not read that thread about trapped miners but it's there.

[lewislynn]

I use as much energy as I possible can, just to pi** a**holes like this off.

I use all I want too. My power company and I have an impied agreement. They send electricity to my meter, then I pay them according to how much I choose to use...we didn't ask the neighbors if that was OK with them, we just do it that way.

After it goes through the meter it's mine to waste if I choose to.

[lewislynn]

BTW, I'm sure Cindy, in her infinite wisdom, is feeling real good about herself right now.

[LibWhacker]

To be fair, she did take a lot of heat for that comment. But I'm just real suspicious of leftwingers' motives in general and I suspect that newsgroup is full of them. Could definitely be wrong since I don't read it. After all, there's nothing wrong with saving a buck if you can! :-)

[BlackVeil]

It starts off well, then starts to sound like someone coping in one of those hopeless countries like Somalia. Has the privatisation of the electricity system reduced Californians to this?

[mercy]

Dennis, Dennis, Dennis. Where oh where is the barf alert?

[Sandy]

I don't understand this stuff. What is the grid? What are PV panels? What is the purpose of living like this? Sounds like a big pain in the ass just to save a few bucks. Weird.

[Looking4Truth]

The grid is the power distribution system that you are connected to. PV stands for photo-voltaic(sp?) solar power. There is active and passive solar power (PV is active), but we won't get into that.

I didn't check out the links posted with the articles (yet) so I didn't get the take on the tree-hugger slant.

Before everyone goes off here, remember that being self-sufficient is a good conservative trait.

Case in point from TODAY. My friend lives down in the city limits where there are water restrictions. He has rigged up some 55-gallon drums and a pump on his truck and gets water from the river to water his grass. His neighbor ratted him out to the city and when the 'water police' showed up, he pointed to his truck with the barrels on it with a pump feeding his sprinklers and they both had a good laugh at the socialist-let-the-nanny-state-take-care-of-everything-liberal neighbor who ratted him out in the first place.

Wonder if there will be happy endings like that under TIPS?

[FreedomPoster]

Wonder if there will be happy endings like that under TIPS?

Recent history has shown there is at least a significant subset of federales who shoot first and ask questions later.

[FreedomPoster]

I don't understand this stuff.

I agree, from the standpoint of all the brain damage that is obviously involved in getting totally off the grid right now. That said, this stuff is interesting as a back up power source. PV bears watching; it's conceivable that within my lifetime, it could truly (not a Green's analysis), economically replace central station power for residences in parts of the U.S.

I'm glad there are people out there like this guy, willing to be the arrows-in-the-back pioneers. As long as they don't want to force me to go along with them.

[WhirlwindAttack]

We live way out in the country and we have a solar PV setup.
It powers our well and backup power.
We have also installed a Servall gas refrigerator and freezer.
I heat the house in the winter with a wood fired boiler.
So we have plenty of hot water along with the heat.

When we had a major ice storm a few years ago grid power was out for 19 days while REMC repaired the downed lines and broken poles.
We were functional while most of our neighbors were not.
Since then a majority of them have installed backups.
BTW I sell excess power back to the utility company and my bills are really low.
But I must admit I like to run the air conditioning and PV alone won't cover that.LOL

FReegards

[DainBramage]

Since I went mostly off the grid,

And your rocker.

[dennisw]

I don't understand this stuff. What is the grid? What are PV panels? What is the purpose of living like this? Sounds like a big pain in the ass just to save a few bucks. Weird.
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This person seems to live by himself. Maybe a girlfiend drops by sometimes. This situation makes it a lot easier to "live off the grid". Still his 6$ per month for electric is very good.

[Rebelbase]

Being self-sufficeint is an admirable trait, especially in rural areas where storm damage can cause power outages that last for a week or more.

[AmericanCompatriot]

I use as much energy as I possible can, just to pi** a**holes like this off.

I certainly use what I wish to, and can afford to use. After all, what the heck was the point of inventing all of this great stuff if we can't ever use it. Liberals are just plain INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[2Trievers]

Some things are just HARD to explain. It helps to wear these ... &;-)

[DainBramage]

Self sufficiency to an extreme without having to be, seems just that, extreme. I agree though, that being able survive this way, if one had to, is an admirable trait.