Grrrrr!!! What is it with the Green weenies

As you all know, I am building my house for living off grid. No grandiose 'enlightenment' about Gore'bal Warming or holes in the Ozone or carbon footprint. Nope, none of that crap for me. This is all about becoming independent of anyone but myself.

Now, I have been looking around for information on systems, and ideas on this and I keep running into Prancing Rabbits and their ilk.

Here is a clue for the Green weenies. IF you want people to pay attention to you, STOP rubbing in their face how "horrible their Carbon Footprint is". First and foremost, We (obviously) DON'T GIVE A SHIT! Look around at the bumper stickers in this area and you will see MANY Friends of Coal stickers and others that say, "Ban coal and let the SOB's freeze in the dark." I don't care about my carbon footprint, all you have to do is look at my ragtag beater mid 80's pickemup that has the Cat cut off and leaks oil at enough of a rate to kill the weeds in 'her spot'.

(just look at the pavement and you can see where she has marked her spot.)


Here's another hint. IF you want people to take you seriously, TAKE SHOWER! Hot water, Real soap, shampoo (you may need to shave off your Dred's first but hey, those things can't be all that healthy anyway.)

Here is how I see my future without a Grid tie in. I have purchased two (thinking a third.) hot water heaters. These use GAS! (OMG, how many tons of CO2 am I dumping on you guys? ;P ) I am going to be adding a small GAS stove also. I will heat my house with WOOD and Coal though I lean more to the wood as I don't really like the smell of coal in the house. The shop is fine. I have a very small need for electric. I don't really use as much as you would think IF I don't rely on it for heating water. Really the largest draw on my system is going to be the Fridge. Followed by my tools in the shop. My netbook pulls so little power that I had to change the setting on my Fluke to get a good reading. While on, and recharging, its only drawing 1/3 W !!! IF I leave it on and plugged in, It takes an entire month to come close to one days use of my old laptop.

The reason I have been looking at these things is to root out any issues I may run into. What I have been finding (5th book and all run a similar vein) is Preaching about the first three myths. GW CC Ozone. And every single stinking one of them talks about 'gooberment subsidies' and how that is making things more affordable.( umm, do I really need to start firing off torpedoes at that or should I wait until I have a GW in my face first? ) NOT ONE book has actually answered a single question I have.

Maybe I need to write the book myself. Sell it online at Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes and Nobel as an E-book for a measly $.59. That would cut the sales of these Greenweeny books I am certain.
What do you think the title should be? "Getting off Grid so I can make the hippies Scream in outrage"


Just saying.