13 weeks 5 days ago

San Diego, CA

Think about what is really important - America got to be too insane for too long - constantly bigger houses, more cars, more boats - more kids - Books such as the Millionaire Next Door shows what happened to immigrant families that moved here, making a fortune - then dooming the next generation to a crazy lifestyle that would later crash.

Medium Green

Paper Towels

I want to be a common-sense environmentalist - after all, a huge meteor could strike the earth at any time, making all of our green efforts - obsolete -- in other words, you have to have a sense of humor. Out here in San Diego, environmentalists have prevented roads from being built for many years, trying to force us out of our cars, into "wonderful mass transit" - which most of us have tried, and discovered - it sucks! You are on the road 2 -3 times as long, and are seated next to a pyscho-killer and a person who hasn't bathed in - how long? Meanwhile, if we had better efficient roads, which were killed because the nat-catcher-ninny-ca-boob MAY be inconvenienced by a road going through a certain area, we are sitting in traffic, getting zero miles to the gallon, with tempers flaring to the max - because we have not had common sense in having efficient transportation. Now I like to be green - I am trying to upgrade my energy-hog condo into an efficient home as I have money - I tried to redo my insulation (stopped by the HOA), roll a solar barrier under the eaves of the attic, have a front-load washer, tried to find energy-star appliances, and even the most efficient of them - have used flourescent lights for years, try to replace them with more efficient fixtures when they die, try to walk within town, and will consider a hybrid for my next vehicle - and was considering a bike to get to work at times. If I get to build a new home, i will consider a efficient dome home. Many times we go backwards though with our best intentions. We took the mercury out of picture tubes on tv's - now the old tubes often had a lifetime warranty, the new ones don't last nearly as long - which means the whole tv gets junked - not just the picture tube. I am still using a 1984 Mitsubishi, and a 1985 Quasar. How many lesser, newer, crappy sets have these two kept out of the landfill? And their mercury is still safely contained in the picture tubes. Also, if you own an older classic car, such as my 1985 Chrysler New Yorker, you are not free to switch to a newer, more efficient gas engine, as Chrysler used many different engines in this and similar model cars over the next 10 years or so - you must stay with the same crappy Mitsubishi engine the car was made with - I could have switched to the Chrysler built - fuel-injected engine, which was much cheaper and more reliable than the Mitsubishi when the engine needed rebuilding - but the EPA stands in the way! The agency that should be cleaning up our environment PREVENTS YOU from using less gasoline, and less resources, and emitting less emissions - because "it wasn't what the car came with" - huh? We need to often think of the consequences of our actions - and make sure they really make sense!