Reply #24: The other day I took my Sunday trip to the metal recyclers

[Gregorian]

We have this great outdoors private metal recycle place where people just dump their stuff. And it's ok to take stuff, as well. So I go there once a week and grab things. The list is too long to post here. I've found so much great stuff. But the last time, I picked up a gas lawn mower. All it needed was gas. I'd never buy one. I've since found three more. I don't even know what to do with them. They sit in my barn. But they're all the same. So I have spare parts. I don't have a lawn. I just have acres of grass. Not much use.
The problem is that we are so accustomed to cheap available energy in our modern world that we are living way way beyond our means. It wasn't long ago that people used horses, or their own muscles. Then we burned wood for steam. But the population was small. 1890 was about the last year of sanity.