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A thread you started a while back has put me on the path of my next adventure, and I wanted to properly thank you for it!
You posted a thread about bio-diesel, and since then, I have been devouring everything I can find on energy self-sufficiency.
I think that's the missing piece of the puzzle for me, actually. I've been structuring my life for the past several years in such a way that I'm not beholden to anyone...doing the usual stuff, focusing on the elimination of all debt, so that no one has a claim against anything I own....but I still felt that I was missing something.
Your thread opened the door and showed me what it was.
Quite simply, when I DO get all my debts paid (house is the last one...workin' on that now), I'll still be beholden to "the grid" and the oil companies.
This latest crisis (Katrina and the gas shortages) only serves to underscore how tenuous a connection the lifeblood of a modern economy really is...and how easily broken.
Thus, I am making plans to say goodbye to both the oil company AND "the grid" and become entirely self sufficient.
My theory is that I can do that WITHOUT being all weird and living in a wigwam....I don't want that. I want to keep as many of the modern luxuries as I possibly can....just....self sufficiently.
So...my first quest then, is for a new vehicle.
My old vehicle is a '97 Ford Ranger with so many miles and dings on it that we shall assume it to have negligible trade value.
I'm doing this from a "cold start" (in that, at present, all my extra money each month has been going toward making extra house payments....at the start of the year, I'll put at least some money each month toward saving for a new vehicle, and when I get enough, I'll go pay cash for something).
So...a question to the good folk of 'poly, and especially the Euros....any recommendations on good diesel vehicles? I don't care about looks or styling so much....what I want is a utility vehicle (rugged, good for hauling), and good gas mileage (extremely important).
-=Vel=-
You posted a thread about bio-diesel, and since then, I have been devouring everything I can find on energy self-sufficiency.
I think that's the missing piece of the puzzle for me, actually. I've been structuring my life for the past several years in such a way that I'm not beholden to anyone...doing the usual stuff, focusing on the elimination of all debt, so that no one has a claim against anything I own....but I still felt that I was missing something.
Your thread opened the door and showed me what it was.
Quite simply, when I DO get all my debts paid (house is the last one...workin' on that now), I'll still be beholden to "the grid" and the oil companies.
This latest crisis (Katrina and the gas shortages) only serves to underscore how tenuous a connection the lifeblood of a modern economy really is...and how easily broken.
Thus, I am making plans to say goodbye to both the oil company AND "the grid" and become entirely self sufficient.
My theory is that I can do that WITHOUT being all weird and living in a wigwam....I don't want that. I want to keep as many of the modern luxuries as I possibly can....just....self sufficiently.
So...my first quest then, is for a new vehicle.
My old vehicle is a '97 Ford Ranger with so many miles and dings on it that we shall assume it to have negligible trade value.
I'm doing this from a "cold start" (in that, at present, all my extra money each month has been going toward making extra house payments....at the start of the year, I'll put at least some money each month toward saving for a new vehicle, and when I get enough, I'll go pay cash for something).
So...a question to the good folk of 'poly, and especially the Euros....any recommendations on good diesel vehicles? I don't care about looks or styling so much....what I want is a utility vehicle (rugged, good for hauling), and good gas mileage (extremely important).
-=Vel=-
Thanks guys! And will do, Ted, tho I suspect that at least at the start things will be slow goings. I've got to wrap a couple of ongoing projects up in order to free up the fundage to do this thing right, but I'll get there...
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