Reply #76: We should have listened to President Carter... [View All]

[LeahMira]

How'd you like to buy a house...
...with a 16 % mortgage interest rate?

We bought our house in 1978 with an 8 3/4% interest rate... and solar panels installed with only a $600. extra cost to us.

Back then, people were experimenting with building underground (bermed houses) as another way of cutting heating costs. Windmills were another way of generating your own electricity, and some folks were actually selling to the electric companies.

If this country had listened to Jimmy Carter and started figuring ways of being independent of oil back then, we wouldn't be having problems now.

Interesting that the Crawford ranch has geothermal technology and recycles waste water though, isn't it?