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Jeff Schultz pulls plug on excess
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“You don’t have to have a lot of stuff to have a happy and enjoyable life.”
That’s a new outlook for Jeff Schultz, 26, a computer consultant for FedEx who works from his home in Jeffersontown.
“At one point I was going to lease a BMW to try to meet women,” he confessed. Now Schultz speaks with pride of his fuel-efficient transport: a Kymco People 250 scooter that gets 65 miles per gallon of gas and an aging Volkswagen Jetta, for rainy days, that goes 48 miles on a gallon of diesel. “It’s a totally different way of thinking.”
Schultz’s new perspective on what he drives isn’t because he’s now married and no longer on the prowl for a date. “The big reasons why I’ve switched to fuel-efficient transportation are global warming and oil,” he said. “You don’t want to base your lifestyle on excessive use of a finite resource.”
Schultz read an article on peak oil theory — the hypothesis that the Earth is at its peak use of oil supplies now and the resource will only get scarcer.
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