Merlin
Active Member
I have energy saving flourescent lightbulbs in every single damned fixture in my house...I car pool to work, and when I drive, it is an extremely miserly VW jetta .... I set the thermostat to 57 degrees after 9PM and it is 62 before that. My 1812 federal home is not air conditioned and I have paid to have it super insulated.... I recycle EVERYTHING... I do my part - and admittedly, in the beginning, at the forceful urging of my extremely environmentally aware wife - but I do it.... and what Al Gore's electric bill is is his damned business and none of mine and has NO impact on whether I think that we are fouling our nest and need to do something about it.
Maineman, I have to agree with you in certain aspects and respect your thoughts and actions also. I don't recycle because I think it isn't necessary, I don't protect the environment, same reason, and I think spotted owls and whales should be on a menu until they are all gone. If you want to do those things and protect the environment, so be it. But gore getting on the grandstand and telling me to do something and him acting like a king of some country and deserving special treatment and doing the opposite don't cut the mustard with me. It would be like you telling me to drive 50 mph, but you were going to drive 80 mph. And in my opinion, the electric company didn't release the records. There are more ways than one to get information like that. Maybe the garbage man got it from one of his bills? Maybe he disclosed it his declaration of assets?