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Originally Posted by TheIglu  So while people keep bitching like crazy until gas is back down to $1.00/gallon (here is a secret, IT WON'T HAPPEN), I'll be using the money I would of spend on a new exhaust for the ZRX, new suspension for the CR125 and a new trailer for a new heating system that will save me double that in the next five years. |
i didn't know anyone was complaining about that. I thought people were worried about gas prices skyrocketing and crippling our economy. cheap gas has enabled this country to accomplish everything it has over the years. you wanna hear people bitch about gas prices, try over in europe. the economy is nowhere close to dead now, but letting oil prices run rampant is a sure way to kill it.
what works for you isn't going to work for society. we could all run electric saws, but there's already an energy shortage. if gas prices doubled or tripled, i'm sure you'd realize real quick just how much you really rely on it.
it'd be nice not to have to rely on oil, but we've been saying the same thing since the 1970s, and any change is decades into the future. self-sufficiency is great, but most people dont have the luxury to take all this time out of their busy schedule to chop wood. the only kind of self-sufficiency that might work, would be a windmill spinning freely in the back yard, but even then there's the startup cost, and all sorts of zoning issues and regulations that prevent people from doing it. my parents wanted to do this years ago for their 2.5 acre property on the south shore, but the street and town committee wouldn't allow it because windmills are "big and ugly" or something.
to say you dont rely on oil is dillusional, and to think people have the time and/or strength to chop wood or gather energy themselves by other means is insane. if people everywhere take time out of their lives to do this, they lose work, spend less, and the economy tanks. once again, this isn't the 1800s. i think you've been hanging out in the woods too long.