I didn’t super-insulate my home for political reasons.  I like to save money and my wife likes to be warm.   When we import the majority of our oil from turbulent parts of the world, we give power to dictators and terrorists.  We open ourselves up to petro-blackmail.  How soon would it be before our support for Israel would be reason to shut off the oil tap to the US?  Just consider for a moment if the western world got it’s act together and didn’t need all that oil.  Where would the tyrants be?   All the actions the US have taken  to protect our oil sources have put our people in danger.

If the USA leads the world in developing new sources of energy, we take power away from potential blackmailers and keep dollars home.  I don’t pretend to know how the country can do it.  There are plenty of ideas out there.   I have no control over that but I do have control over my life and can make an effort to minimize my energy use through my super insulated, passive solar home, living a low impact life and yes, hypermiling to get the most miles per gallon.  Maybe my little savings don’t add up to much, but there are millions of us.  Millions.