Zippy While Parked
Gas prices being what they are, I could end up spending $250 on gas -- this year. Maybe next car around, I'll be filling up from the French fry vat at Mickey D's...and parking it in front of my solar-heated, waste-water recycling prefab home.
Eco doesn't have to be ugly. Or expensive. No, maybe it's not how you saw your dream house -- but with a prefab house by, say, Rocio Romero, you could find yourself shelling out $41,050 for building and transportation costs; coming up to between $75,000 and $125,000 with contractor costs on site. Land is extra.
Upscale mobile homes are in. In fact, a woman in my French class has made renovating and selling them her side business. Her latest mobile home renovation, on the cliff overlooking Zuma Beach, is going for 1.65. Million, that is. Yes, dollars.
We have the same car! Now I need to work on options to lower my home heating and cooling bills...
Jane at April 24, 2006 2:57 PM
When I have my own house, I'll get solar heating and also think about building and insulating to be more climate-worthy. Also, I have a lawn here, but I think it's important, in California, to landscape with stones and native plants that don't need much (if any) watering.
Amy Alkon at April 24, 2006 3:58 PM
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