FWIW, 57-(soon to be 58)-year-old boomer. Wife and I have owned one car between us since 1975. Compact variety, fairly fuel efficient. Five cars total in that period. (Would be four if'n I'd bought the car I wanted in '87 instead of succumbing to one of my periodic fits of misplaced frugality.) Drive less than 10,000 miles/year. None of it to convenience stores.
Thermostat in winter set at 66F day, 60F night. Do love my AC in our muggy and hot summers, though. Can only take so much off, you know. ;-) Classic content: No AC on any of my on-topic bikes (or off-topic, either).
Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
>Well, the bad part is that, whereas I was about the median age in the last such survey, I'm now, at 56, several years over the median, both because the median has dropped and due the the inexorable march of time.
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> As to the boomer generation, you're more optimistic than I. Our generation talks a good game on the environment, but most of us still drive a gas-guzzling SUV two blocks to the convenience store and crank up the home/car air conditioner/heater rather than open a window or dress appropriately. I'm afraid most members of the generation of peace and love are now just as bought into materialism and consumerism as any other generation. Our words deny it, but our conduct confirms it. Even the cyclists among us tend to arrive at the start of the ride with the bike atop a two-ton SUV.
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> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, TX
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Phil Sieg
Knoxville, Tennessee