Sourdough, I don't think you will ever find a post of mine that said you were unpatriotic, and the intent of my post was not to say your a braggart, or spitfull.
Yes I buy gas, everyone does who owns a vehicle
Yes I do in fact recycle, paper, aluminum, glass, and every damn thing else that can be recycled
Don't own a hot tub, my solar panels and other devices pay what would have been 3/4 of my power bill when I am home long enough to turn the lights on. (haven't seen home in 2 years, thankfully my family travels with me)
I don't spoil my child, he gets what he needs but not everything he wants even though I can afford it
I do change my own oil as well as brakes, tranny fluid, tune ups, and every other maintenance item on my vehicles, I also properly dispose of the used fluids (and yes your correct, the waste from the jiffy lubes of the world are phenomenal), old batteries etc.
For the garbage comment, see the recycle comment
Every one is guilty of something, and I cast no stone, nor did many of the other posters
As a suggestion, it might not be a bad idea to go back and re-read the post on this thread in the helpful manner in which they were intended. Granted a few of them were of a harsher nature, speaking for mine, it was not intended that way.
"Wait just a damn minute......Look at yourselves....." with all due respect, and speaking for myself, I would suggest a revised look at your assumptions when you say "yourselves" and include me in it.