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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (63440)	5/5/2008 7:01:11 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542139

If you build a house and use the best insulation, how in the world does that "constrain your needs"? It doesn't. I was speaking to conservation, in general, not to your example. Yours was a good example of conservation without constraining needs. Full disclosure: I just got new windows. Although I didn't get them for conservation reasons but because I could no longer see through the old ones, that will be a nice side benefit. But a lot of conservation does involve constraining your needs. Carpooling constrains your needs, for example. As does buying a smaller house than is comfortable, to use your more recent example. Not that constraining your needs is a bad thing. Only that it isn't the same as optimizing the supply of energy, which was the framework of the discussion.