"Just splurge a little; Even a bad economy is no excuse for hyperfrugality" by Sam Allis, Globe Columnist | February 8, 2009
.... Speaking of extremist behavior, an article in The New York Times last week caught my eye. It was about lunatic people - my adjective, not the Times's - who have unplugged their refrigerators in the name of energy efficiency.
Enviro-cultists run amok!!
As best as I can get it, they survive with a small freezer in the basement and a steady rotation of ice water bottles from said basement freezer toted up into the dead refrigerator in the kitchen to keep it cool enough to preserve some foods. Meat for hungry mouths? Try
This whole thing is nuts. It has far less to do with survival in hard times than it does in trumpeting extremism in the name of energy savings. I know a lot of serious environmentalists who would blanch at the thought of losing their refrigerators. Think of a family of five eating two or three meals a day sans refrigerator....
Then I think GAZA!!!!!
