"katysails" wrote in message
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Donal,
You are stereotyping the lifestyle here. I have a smallish
refrigerator...14 cubic ft...

That is twice the size of our refrigerator!!!!



we drive cars that get 30 mpg and we buy them
new and drive them until they die...

Mine 33mpg, my wife's 41mpg(AFAIK).


we use our air conditioner maybe 5 days

We don't have air conditioning at home.


a summer and never I never use the air conditioner in my car but prefer to
have the window open...

I admit that I use the air conditioning in the car.


You don't have a TV?

I hardly watch it any more. I spend three hours at the piano, I watch the
news, then I come here.


We have a small set in the
living room and then we have the old tv in the family room that we very
seldom use except when the grandkids are here and want to play with the
Play
Station...I do my dishes by hand,

So do we.


di not have an insinkerator or a trash
compacter...

Neither do we.

we recycle all out pop bottles and reuse out plastic milk
cartons until they literally are no longer usable...Think is, most of my
friends live the same way...

We sort our refuse. Paper goes in the "paper" bin, plastics go in the
"plastic" bin ... etc.


You can't judge us from tv shows..

I don't. 25% of energy consumed by humans is used in the US. I didn't
get this figure from tv shows. You use 7 times more energy than the rest of
the planet's occupants.

Your fridge is twice the size of mine, your car is a gas guzzler compared to
my wife's car.... you have air-conditioning.

Do you really think that my (bio-degradable) cigarette butts are doing more
harm to the environment than your luxurious lifestyle?


Regards


Donal
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