Specifically, the ones who claim character-building, or better moral fibre are the ones I think are insane.
If you're saving money by using less energy, my feeling is that you're on quite eminently defensible ground. (This is, for example, my Dad's argument for keeping the thermostat extremely low in winter; a policy which worked great until the pipes froze one winter night, and created a shower from the basement drop ceiling. That incident definitely made him raise the thermostat.) We can argue about the particular cost-benefit balance we each choose, but the argument is at least logically sound.
But if you're doing it because you're in it to save money, have the courage of your convictions and say so. (As, I note, you have, so my beef is not with you.)
It's the ones who are being cheap but insist on claiming the moral high ground--the people plumtreeblossom referred to--who I think are insane. Self-deluded, at least.
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If you're saving money by using less energy, my feeling is that you're on quite eminently defensible ground. (This is, for example, my Dad's argument for keeping the thermostat extremely low in winter; a policy which worked great until the pipes froze one winter night, and created a shower from the basement drop ceiling. That incident definitely made him raise the thermostat.) We can argue about the particular cost-benefit balance we each choose, but the argument is at least logically sound.
But if you're doing it because you're in it to save money, have the courage of your convictions and say so. (As, I note, you have, so my beef is not with you.)
It's the ones who are being cheap but insist on claiming the moral high ground--the people