The RV Life and the environment
As we lumber around the landscape in our monstrous sized Class A's, huge Class B's and C's, 3/4 Ton Diesel Pickups towing that Long Long trailer and converted Buses are we as a group a blight on the Environment?
My bet is that Full timers are actually net energy SAVERS. But only if they do not keep a house in addition to the RV.
If you live in your RV then you use less of almost everything, water, electricity, and maybe even petroleum.
This came to mind from another post on the wasting of paper and trees on this forum.
When you live in a small space whether it be a Trailer, MH, Sailboat or Tiny House (think Tiny House Nation)you learn to conserve. If you flush the toilet in your house it pours about 4 gallons of water down the drain. Here in my RV I probably use less than a quart per flush.
We reuse or re purpose many otherwise Throw-away articles, like paper and plastic bags.
Since we got our PMB our junk mail has stopped almost completely as most senders have now programmed out almost all of the PMB addresses. We do almost ALL of our banking and financial tasks online. Therefore a HUGE amount of paper is saved.
Right now the US is awash in petroleum. In fact they cant find enough space to store it all. We are for the first time the largest oil producer in the world even over Saudi Arabia. But this wont last. We all still need to be aware of how we can all save energy, in all it's forms.
We all need to encourage the RV industry, Parks and GSE to conserve and become more energy efficient.
I would like to see GSE take the lead on this. When companies conserve they make more money...and we all know how much Marcus likes money.
My bet is that Full timers are actually net energy SAVERS. But only if they do not keep a house in addition to the RV.
If you live in your RV then you use less of almost everything, water, electricity, and maybe even petroleum.
This came to mind from another post on the wasting of paper and trees on this forum.
When you live in a small space whether it be a Trailer, MH, Sailboat or Tiny House (think Tiny House Nation)you learn to conserve. If you flush the toilet in your house it pours about 4 gallons of water down the drain. Here in my RV I probably use less than a quart per flush.
We reuse or re purpose many otherwise Throw-away articles, like paper and plastic bags.
Since we got our PMB our junk mail has stopped almost completely as most senders have now programmed out almost all of the PMB addresses. We do almost ALL of our banking and financial tasks online. Therefore a HUGE amount of paper is saved.
Right now the US is awash in petroleum. In fact they cant find enough space to store it all. We are for the first time the largest oil producer in the world even over Saudi Arabia. But this wont last. We all still need to be aware of how we can all save energy, in all it's forms.
We all need to encourage the RV industry, Parks and GSE to conserve and become more energy efficient.
I would like to see GSE take the lead on this. When companies conserve they make more money...and we all know how much Marcus likes money.
