For years I lived with a hot water heater that, along with my furnace, was fired by oil. And every time I turned up the heat or ran the hot water I felt a pang of guilt. Not becasue of the high price of oil, but because petro dollars fund terrorist regimes and contribute to so much corruption worldwide.
So now I live in a house with an electric hot water heater. And for the first few months I lived here, I was very cautious about running the hot water. But it just occurred to me that my electricity comes from a wood-burning power plant in Newigton, New Hampshire. And that I can take hot showers, do laundry on the 'hot' setting and use hot water whenever I want without being concerned about the global socio-politiclal-econmic-terrorist-funding ramifications in doing so. How liberating! In fact, I've taken the electric space heater out of the basement and plugged it in so now I'm heating part of my house with electricity, too. Woo hoo!
