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Thoreau Would Have Found This Amusing…or not

I played around with a new site today called WattzOn.com that helps you to figure out how much energy your existence consumes on a daily basis. It’s a pretty useful site because it asks pretty thorough questions, and then reports on you vs. historical American, you vs. the world, you vs. lightbulbs, etc. Here’s my consumption of energy:

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Pretty cool right? Who knew that my biggest environmental damage is coming from government? Here’s me vs. historical Americans:

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So I’m doing pretty well relative to the average American, and I need to follow Thoreau’s advice about not paying my taxes. Got it.

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Feb 13, 2009

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