Reply #170: Married with 3 kids .... want more details ... read on ... [View All]

[JoePhilly]

My wife's job and my job are not co-located ... not public transportation for her or me (I work from home almost every day, but do at times need to go into the office).

Our three kids ... High School, middle school, elementary school. As a result, in our area, all 3 are on different schedules. My son (high school) plays sports and misses the bus and needs to be picked up (I also pick up his friends and take them home).

My middle other kids take the bus. I do the shopping during the day, need a car to do that ... my wife's job requires her to change location during the work day.

Now that I have explained some of the details of my life ... I return to the question at hand ... who are you, or ANYONE else, to describe what "energy profile" I should have?

Do I need to sell my house? It uses energy. Maybe more than yours, maybe less. If mine uses less than YOURs should I expect YOU to downsize??

My house is relatively new, and has some of the most efficient windows you can buy ... does yours???? If not what not? You question my ownership of 2 cars ... can I question the efficiency of your windows?? Your Insulation?? Whether you compost your waste???

As i said earlier ... fighting each other as to which of us on the left is doing the most to conserve is STUPID. The way to WIN that game is to move your family into a CAVE.

So do that ... and make the left look stupid when you do.