Picklesickle and other Wordplay

Old man winter showed his face today an blew an angry, icy wind that instilled fear in me.
Fear, I say.
Fear of the cold, fear of jacking up my heat, fear of jacking up my heat which in-turn jacks my bank statement.
Forget that you get to wear awesome coats and scarves and boots with the furrrrr...it's cold!
This will now be my morning: wake up to NPR and gently roll back the covers to feel my body warmth dissipate immediately.
What comes next?
Debate hitting snooze; but wait...that would mean getting out of bed for what, 8 more minutes of sleep?
NO!
I creep that first foot out onto the hardwood that feels as though it has frozen over with a sheet of ice. I hear Pickles scratching around in his cage, luckily he didn't from becoming a Picklesickle during the night.
Now my shower will take even longer to heat up while my nipples shrivel to what looked like freckles. And I just know when I step out of the shower they will again shrivel.
It's now a race to get dressed to fend off the jet of cold air rushing through my decrepit windows. don't feel so sorry for me; I'm having some replaced.
That brings me to efficiency, my topic for Third Tuesday tonight:
How energy efficient can one be? You get the triple-paned windows, over insulated abode, and energy star appliances, but then what?
What about when our gas runs out?
What about when your geothermal power is not enough to warm us all?
I want to save money, but I also want to know that a hundred years from now people that inhabit the planet will be able to bitch about their energy bills, too.
Why are we not planning ahead, ahead?
Aren't we acutely aware that one day the oil well will run dry?
Don't we realize that there is only so much coal to be scraped from the Earth?
Yes, these are questions that I wonder, even as I wish I had an electric hand warmer to warm my icy hands as I take hold of a warm wiener to peepee.
But what can I do? This is just one of so many mornings that will go on until old man winter goes back up north to vacation on the poles.