To Go Green You Must Start With The Grass
May 6th, 2008 by Jonathan While on my way to work, pausing at every red light, I came to a point of frustration rarely seen. Yes, some of that frustration had to do with people who get in a car and try to drive somewhere automatically lose 78% of their brain. OK, its not really true… it just seems that way. The real frustration came at every stop as the gas station prices kept increasing. My problem, how do I become independent of the energy Mafia.
I came up with a solution, the only problem is that many critics will not agree with my solution. My new plan is to become energy independent. “Wow…” you say, “This is what I come here for!? I figured that is what you were trying to do all along!!!” Well the truth is, you are correct but, until now I have not really thought about it in a realistic way. I must switch everything that I possibly can to electric driven. Electricity is a universal energy and can be created in many ways including solar, wind and even good old dirty coal power plants. My plan is to convert exclusively to electricity and gradually ween myself off of the power grid. The beauty of this plan is the ability to take individual steps to achieve this goal. I do not have to go out and spend millions right away and with each step of the process I will be making myself less dependent on gasoline and other fuels. My new “Fuel” will be electricity, not Coal, not gasoline, not bio-diesel, just plain electricity.
My first purchase into this new plan is a battery powered lawn mower. My current mower has had its fair share of issues starting with the unfortunate “Stump Incident.” The “Stump Incident” left the poor lawn mower trembling in fear each time I would try to cut the grass. In layman terms it bent the shaft and made the blade off center so that it beat the crap out of my hands. This spring when I decided to mow and found that the old beat up mower won’t even start. So I figured, I talk about Greener Thinking all the time, why not try to put my money where my mouth is.
With my grass being rather tall I decided to make the purchase quickly. I began looking at Sears and found a Craftsman 19″ battery powered mower. These battery powered mowers are not really the most cost effective mowers, this one started at $479 but, because they were having a sale I was able to walk away with it for $399. I have a rather small yard so I think this lawn mower should work rather well. I was only able to use the mower once so far and due to the length of the grass, I do not think that it lasted as long as it should. I will be using this lawn mower over the next couple of months and submitting my full review on Greener Thinking so stay tuned.
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