Living Sustainably: Part 2 of 2

First, we have plug in electric cars. Most automobile manufacturers actually make one. Some get phenomenal mileage. The current Ford Fusion gets 108 miles to the gallon. It is touted as, you drive your car around all day, mostly on electric. You come home at night and plug it into your house’s grid-connected electricity and you replenish the battery (fuel) for your car for the next day. Given the price of electricity currently I believe the electrical equivalent of a gallon of gasoline only costs about .50 cents.

But if we follow the electric line from your house to the generating power, we find that to a great extent there is a power generator run by fossil fuels, i.e., natural gas, diesel or even nuclear energy.

Living sustainably we reduce our dependency on foreign oil or we live completely without the electric company and you be your power company. You could bring your electric car home. Plug it into your own solar power generating station and run your car for free off the sun.

What’s wrong with that picture? Well, as far as the coal, oil, gas and nuclear industry is concerned, that stops you from sending your monthly payment to them on the monthly payment plan. And now, you are not even taking your car to fuel it up at the gas station.

I ask you,

Who is it that doesn’t want you to know you can drive your car for free?

It is true that if we all plugged in our electric cars to the grid we would bring the grid down. The current electric grid in the USA, (using the term “grid” loosely) is old, outdated and over-capacity.

Living off-the-grid is not just reducing or eliminating your dependence on foreign oil. You are not using up natural resources.

People always want to talk about heating and cooling. I am in the powering your house business. I am in the powering your car business. Yes, you can heat your house with solar hot water. Solar hot water is so low tech, it begs the question,

Why isn’t everybody using it? It is so cheap and so easy.

Most folks are so financially strapped they can’t even consider the capital outlay necessary to do anything other than what they have always been doing. With no incentive from the Government to help people to move to a more sustainable life-style, it plays right into the coal, oil and gas company, who have all the money. All the rest of us have none, and we continue to send our checks to them. Every check to the coal, oil and gas company puts another nail in the coffin of mother earth.

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