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...families earn more than $21,000 per year-a cut above the average for the typical German suburb. Nonetheless, a lingering frugality engendered by the war years pervades Rösrath and makes the residents far more energy-conscious than their counterparts in Hinsdale. Says Housewife Edith Szyperski, 42: "When we were children we had to save. We often had petroleum only a few hours...
...srath's housewives have most modern appliances but they seem to use them more frugally. Mrs. Szyperski figures that she spends only $12.50 a year for electricity for each person in her eight-member household. (Daytime rates in the two communities are comparable.) Such knowledge about energy costs is commonplace in Rösrath; the average housewife knows kilowatt rates as accurately as she does the size of her shoe. Some of Rösrath's residents also benefit from the kind of energy-saving measures that Carter is trying to encourage-for example, a device that stores...
Comparisons between cultures are difficult, yet, in broad terms, the West Germans estimate that they use about half as much energy per capita as their American counterparts. For many people in Rösrath, even that is too much. Edith Szyperski reports that her 33-year-old maid, who was a year old when World War II ended, sometimes wastes hot water. "It bothers me so," says Mrs. Szyperski, and she makes a fist to show her tension-and her memories...
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