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| The Case Against Air Conditioning |
| 2010-07-12 |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #17 My first house (what we could afford at the time) in Vegas, in the summer, had a defunct a/c unit. The pool held water though, and the blender was marvy! So afternoons, after work, on those 120 degree days, I hit the air mattress with a pitcher of margaritas on my belly. Not a bad spin. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2010-07-12 23:47 |
| #16 Swamp cooler dont work all that well here in AZ. It is just too hot and dry. I bought one and all it did was make the garage humid. They work great Sept through April, but come summer, not so well. Of course the guy at Home Depot tried to tell me before I bought it. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2010-07-12 22:45 |
| #15 Set that White House air conditioner on a -65 below zero and keep it there. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-07-12 20:35 |
| #14 Don't they use swamp coolers in Arizona? Those use very little electricity. Yes, but don't they use water? There's not a lot of that in the near-desert Arizona environs, I should think. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-07-12 20:33 |
| #13 I keep my house around 82 or 83 in the summer (when I'm home - higher when I'm gone), NOT because I'm some kind of enviro-nut, but because I have to pay the electric bill. But when it's 95 & 95 (95 degrees and 95% humidity), it's pretty hard to function without A/C. Tell ya' what, Stan - you get the bozos in the White House and Congress to set a "good" example by giving up A/C. Then maybe we can talk. (I grew up without A/C - hot summers sucked.) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-07-12 20:21 |
| #12 AMEN GORB! When the temperature breaks 95, I am cranking on the AC. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2010-07-12 18:59 |
| #11 Don't they use swamp coolers in Arizona? Those use very little electricity. I lived very close to the equator for a couple years WITHOUT air conditioning. You get used to the heat after a while. Believe it or not Folks, breaking a sweat will NOT kill you. Wimps who start to whine about the "heat" anytime an indoor temperature tops 75 degrees are really annoying. A thermostat set at 65 degrees inside an office building is refrigeration, not air conditioning. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2010-07-12 18:58 |
| #10 They can have my A/C when they can pry it from my cold, dead hands. Besides, with the Gerbil Worming and all, it is now a necessity. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-12 18:40 |
| #9 Of course, if we had enough nuclear plants we'd have clean abundant power and wouldn't have to digress into the third world. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-07-12 17:39 |
| #8 Wonder how the health care system would handle a France style die-off of elderly due to the heat and lack of AC. Probably not very well. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-07-12 17:38 |
| #7 In AZ, talk of taking away a/c is regarded as the modern version of horse thievery. Even the gentle people of Scottsdale would consider stringing them up. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-07-12 17:23 |
| #6 I want Stan followed around by some media watchdog. And the minute he goes into some air conditioned venue, I want his Kumbaya ass beaten to a pulp. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-07-12 17:07 |
| #5 Maybe instead of going after grandma in her top floor apartment, brave Stan could go after Hollywood's massive consumption of AC...though viewership of CSPAN may go up as people watch congresscritter's with their makeup and cosmetics pull a slow motion Raiders of the Lost Ark. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-07-12 17:00 |
| #4 Blurred vision, halucinations are sure signs of dehydration and overheating. Lunatic isn't quite the right word; solatic maybe? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-07-12 16:57 |
| #3 Best of all, Washington's biggest business -- government -- is transformed. In 1978, 50 years after air conditioning was installed in Congress, New York Times columnist Russell Baker noted that, pre-A.C., Congress was forced to adjourn to avoid Washington's torturous summers, and "the nation enjoyed a respite from the promulgation of more laws, the depredations of lobbyists, the hatching of new schemes for Federal expansion and, of course, the cost of maintaining a government running at full blast." Summarizes the problem. They used to get the budget and department funding bills out before 1 July. The addition of a/c validates to a degree the old saying - idle hands are the devil's play things. They had to 'look' busy and did so creating a managerial monster. Ban it all within the Beltway. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-07-12 16:31 |
| #2 Sigh. I wanna see this maroon do without AC, on a scorching-summer day for more than a couple of days and nights. I'm sorry, but the misery of Washington in summer with out AC was legendary. I live in San Antonio now, in a modern house, which could have been better-designed to keep cool naturally, with better cross-ventilation and higher ceilings. I minimize use of the AC as much as possible, but doing entirely without it for me - and for many others would be just one long misery. What is it with these people? Do they all live in temperate places and have no notion of how sweaty and nasty and HOT it can be in places like South Texas? |
| Posted by: Sgt.Mom 2010-07-12 16:31 |
| #1 Dear Stan, drop dead. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-07-12 16:27 |