American's Feel Quilty?

There is a national battery company that conducts a suvey. According to the survey we feel quilty because we are not "green" enough.
You can see the article here Click Here!
I actually clicked on the Reprints and Permissions they want $800 to post the article on my website. ARE THEY KIDDING..

Anyway back to the story. Guilty. I'm sorry but not here. I have been recycling since I was a kid. Maybe not in the usual ways.

After all I collect every bit and piece of metal I find. I go out of my way to pick up scrap lumber (sheds or firewood). I go to flooring stores and get old carpet out of the dumpster so that I can carpet my yard (2.5acres of pure sand).

My friends save newspaper and magazines for me to turn in "papercrete". I collect alum cans at every bar I walk into - true only 1 or two per bar. I go into about 12 different bars a night. Then once a year or whenever I have a truck load I take them to the recycler.

Why should I feel quilty when the Government and local utility companies make it so difficult for me to go completely off the Grid. Why can't the utility company "size" my house - install a solar system hooked into the grid and charge me a monthly fee that WILL NOT GO UP. For oh say the next 20 years.

That would be much better than what is happening now. $89 in the winter that jumps to over $300 last summer. I promise that if I can ever afford it. I will put in my own wind/solar system and the power company can go take a hike.

OH and I now they have messed up in a major way. My Electric bill last month was $1.35 the month before that it was over $200.00 I wonder what kind of damage they are going to do to me this month.

Oh, and yes I use energy efficient light bulbs. My outdoor lighting is solar lights ( I sell them too) and I do not use the dryer. Crips I live in the desert. I can hang my clothes on the line.