How Would Keillor Rate?
By Mitch Berg
I took this test to see how I’d stack up in terms of “Sustainability”.
Of course, the only way to “pass” the test is to live in a commune in rural New Mexico (that, for whatever reason, is still high-density).
Perhaps the Guatemalan peasant is the model they’re shooting for (especially since they have to get all of their news from the government. Like…American Public Media!
(Via X-Perspective)
September 25th, 2007 at 6:36 am
5.6 Earths for me. It was the food and drink w2hich pushed me firmly into the Evil American Consumer category.
September 25th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Maybe you’d get a better score if you stopped lighting your cigars with $20 bills, Kerm.
4.8 for Angryclown. Good score on commuting (20 clowns to a car). But all the wasted seltzer and cream pies add up.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:16 am
5.5 for me. Part of my life choices allow me to be productive, feed my family, pay for my house, and make money so that I can be taxed up the wazoo so that I can pay for all the socialists to spend my money. If we didn’t make these choices then our income would be much less, then our taxes we pay would be much less, and socialists would have less money to spend.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:22 am
5.5 for me. What people that worship eviromentalism don’t get is that my life choices allow me to be productive, be self sufficient, and make money so that I can be taxes up the wazoo so that socialists, environmentalists, and the social engineering types can spend my money. As I tell my friends the Marx Brothers(not because they are funny) that I need to work so leftists like you can spend my money.
And these are life “choices”. Choice is good, right?
September 25th, 2007 at 8:22 am
3.3 Earths. A home not much bigger than AC’s clown car, bus commuting and lots of energy efficiencies on the home helped. Food and drink got me, especially the liquor/beer. But is life without beer really life at all? You’ll have to pry that Guiness out of my cold, dead jaundiced hand.
The only way to win this game is if we all go back to subsistance farming with home heat coming only from solar.
And, if we follow the left’s agenda, that’s exactly where we will end up.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:32 am
No Nord, Angryclown also got whacked on the beer/coffee question. The only way to win is to switch to Zima. Clearly a Republican plot.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:41 am
3.7 Earths. I would have consumed fewer Earths were I not such a voracious carnivore.
This would be more impressive if they had used a Galactus scale.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:06 am
9.7 Earths. And it didn’t even ask me about my second home.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:26 am
5.7 Earths for me. It must be flawed as it is housing and food that did me in. I have a corner condo (but apparently too many sq ft) and eat lots of meat and drink beer and coffee.
Is coffee the new bottled water when it comes to destroying the world?
September 25th, 2007 at 9:28 am
If we all lived the way the far left wants us to, there would be so much poverty and starvation in the world. But hey, at least we wouldn’t be over crowded.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:46 am
2.9 earths. Food hit heavily — a diet more heavy on vegetables and fruits living in the colder climate hurts on this scale, plus that daily beer for heart health. The fact that I heat mostly with corn helped since it really drove down the utility bills.
One interesting thing about this one is that my truck didn’t hurt me on this survey, unlike most. When you spend most of your time telecommuting it shouldn’t matter too much what you drive.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:33 am
I think we’re agreed, wingnuts and normal people alike. If we must ban beer to save the Earth, the Earth is not worth saving. Once all the resources are played out, Angryclown will retreat to his Clown Cave stocked with crackers, aerosol cheez and 5,000 cases of Brooklyn Lager.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Why is beer so bad for mother earth? Is it the bubbles? ‘Cause I can drink flat beer if I have to. I nice cellar conditioned English bitter would be just fine.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:04 am
I drove 2 hours to nowhere Kansas Saturday to try out a brewpub I heard about. I agree with the clown. My score was 6 earths and that is with me living downtown in an apartment building and riding a motorcycle everywhere. Apparently I am to pile several people on the bike when I travel.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Wow, it must be the driving. My 6 year old buick and 12k per year must put me over the edge. My score is 22.8.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:27 am
The test lost all credibility with me when it explained that the average Minnesotan spent only $15 a month on Natural Gas and less than $4 per month on heating oil.
Riiiight.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Well the average Minnesotan has to break the ice in the toilet bowl in winter. Sometimes they need an icepick!
September 25th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
I live in a UN designated bio reserve. I’m surrounded by endangered flora & fauna. Bicycles are for thrashing the trails in the national park next door, not commuting.
And I am consuming 7.0 times my allotted ecological resources.
God it’s good to be an American!
September 25th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Andrew, I believe that the number is correct if you go by per member of the household rather total bill for the household. Then the number is probably correct, or at least not too far off.
Well, at least the Clown and I agree on beer. I might be willing to switch to single malt scotch if that’s what it took to save the world, but even then it’d have to be far more convincing than the “proof” the AGW crowd has come up with so far.
And PETA can go to h*ll — I’ll let the Arctic ice caps melt and flood Manhattan before I’ll give up porterhouse.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Bicycles are for thrashing the trails in the national park next door, not commuting.
Actually, bike commuting has been the best thing to happen to me in a while. I feel a thousand times better than I did last spring. I only hope I can carry on with it as far as possible into the fall, here.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
the average Minnesotan spent only $15 a month on Natural Gas and less than $4 per month on heating oil.
Hah! I missed that part…
September 25th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Andrew, I believe that the number is correct if you go by per member of the household
Does that include “the help”, cause then my 9.7 is looking pretty good.
September 25th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
” . . . bike commuting has been the best thing to happen to me in a while.”
At Hawaii Volcanoes National Park you can bike on rainforest trails mere inches from the edge of a five-hundred-foot drop into a fuming caldera. That’ll sweat the pounds off ‘ya!
Anyways, if I was going to commute it would mean a sixty mile ride & a ten thousand foot change in elevation. No thanks.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:49 am
A ten-thousand foot change in elevation? What are you, the bathroom attendant on Mt. McKinley?
September 26th, 2007 at 9:43 am
I noticed the ridiculously low average gas/heating bill, too. I wonder if they calculated that using a value of $0.00 for those who rent with heat included. Or maybe they just collected summer data.
September 26th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
I retook the test today and realized I input 12000 miles per month rather than 1000(12000/year) and my score went from 22.8 to 7. I am so green!