Going Green

Here I go again on going green. I posted this on an eBay chat room:

For two years I walked the talk plus I paid for my solar setup out of my pocket, not by reaching into the taxpayers' pockets. I didn't even try for any tax credit. I used solar with a generator backup for days the panels were covered with snow, wash day and in my shop. To me the value of solar was to enable me to live in a remote area miles from the grid. I hauled water from co-op wells and loved the peace and closeness to nature. I moved back to the grid when I had to foreclose on the house I had sold on a seller carry-back years earlier. Except for solar on my RV I'm now firmly connected to the grid but I miss the independence of living off the grid. I just paid my yearly winter park rent but I am thinking more and more of staying on the BLM land next winter in my RV.

IMO alternative/ renewable energy should be used along with current energy sources. However, logic must prevail. The cost is very high and the pay back period is very long. Battery technology is a limiting factor, however, wind and sun are a free gift from God. Even my summer park in Michigan is going a little green. We're using passive solar to heat our indoor pool and geothermal energy to heat water in the laundry. Also, we're replacing propane with readily available and less expensive natural gas.

That said, I'm believe in using common sense when promoting going green. This whole green movement for the sake of going green is, IMO, a way to drag our country to the level of a third rate country. There is something very evil about the climate change, formally global warming near religion adherents.