Robert J.

Our car burns less than four gallons of gas each week, and many weeks, it's less than three gallons consumed. We live in a small home where utilities are kept in the thirty-to-sixty dollars a month, according to season, also by conservation (non-conspicuous consumption)including compact florescent lights in every socket. Our entertainment is socializing with friends, the museums on free admission days, and items from the library. My wife and I share domestic chores, instead of hiring an ego-boosting servant (who would doubtless burn gas to travel to and from our home). We live next to a suburban complex of stores, restaurants (seldom visited by us), and a big-box grocery store. We walk to do our shopping, striding past the parking lots. A short walk away is a small woods where I commune with nature. My favorite poem is Wordsworths;

The world is too much with us.
Getting and spending,
We lay waste to our powers.
Little we see in nature is ours.