There is an article in the Washington Post that seems to strongly suggest cutting back air conditioning use dramatically. See the article at the link below. This seems to me to be a new varient on the "let them eat cake!" approach to dealing with the conditions of the masses. Speaking for myself, living in Texas just north of Dallas, if it weren't for air conditioning, I would be long gone from Texas. Unfortunately, I fear, the hoi-poloi who also live here in this crushing heat may not be so blessed with the freedom to pull up stakes and move on.
It seems to me that if you agree with this article, the next step for our government to either ban or tax the h311 out of air conditioning use, all in the name of the Holy Grail of coping with "Global Warming." Thoughts?
I have my selfish reasons, but kinda wish we could ban AC's. My wife and I argue non-stop about aC. IMO, AC makes me feel sick. I always ride with my windows down if its under 95F. I like to keep my house AC set to 80, wife and I bicker about it. She feels the need to be kept at 72F at all times. Drives me out of my mind.
If you want the nation's IT infrastructure to overheat, sure, ban or otherwise restrict A/C. You can slash worker productivity and increase heat-related illness while you're at it. The population and economic centers in the hotter parts of the country will dry up, so to speak.
Yep, banning A/C is just what America needs to get itself back on its feet again...
The population and economic centers in the hotter parts of the country will dry up, so to speak.
Precisely my thought. I'm in the Dallas, Texas area. I'm originally from Illinois. Many people in this area are from other states. Many of us -- me! me! -- would leave without airconditioning to make this area hospitable. Historically, I would bet that introduction of residential air conditioning was a big factor in the growth of southern citys such as Dallas, Atlanta, Houston. Folks who want to live in these places without air conditioning can have it. It can be -- and in my experience has been -- over 100 degrees in April here. Certainly it can be over 100 degrees anytime in September and maybe into October. 80 degrees in January is not surprising or anything to write home to mom about. It can -- and in my experience has been -- over 100 degrees for every day for 45 days in a row, with some days going to 112 degrees.
Yah, I say we all give up toilet paper, an unnecessary contrivance of effete hoity-toity people. And intermittent windshield wipers. And refrigerators. C'mon, we lived without refrigerators for many years. And what about electricity generally? Let's draw our water from wells with a windlass.
There are at least 2 reasons Obama don't care his brother lives in a hut. I'm sure the hut don't have A/C.
Reason 1
It is Obama's brother and not Obama.
Reason 2
Marxist don't believe in anybody living any better than any body else. So, the reason it don't bother Obama that his brother lives in a hut is because that is what he has planned for all of us.
Who ever said Marxist don't believe in equality? It is the "pursuit of happiness" that the Marxist will not tolerate.
The only people who are allowed to live a capitalist life style in a Marxist State are the ruling leaders.
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Yah, I say we all give up toilet paper, an unnecessary contrivance of effete hoity-toity people. And intermittent windshield wipers. And refrigerators. C'mon, we lived without refrigerators for many years. And what about electricity generally? Let's draw our water from wells with a windlass.
I won't give up TP. My bathroom is the only peaceful place in the house. I get all my reading done. I need a TV in there.
But man, nothing wrong with getting a little sweaty. When MD had the recent heatwave of over 100 for a few days, my wife didn't leave the house. Litterly. I stayed outside.
A few days... big deal. Here in Houston, it seems like the heat index (determined by temperature and relative humidity) stays above 100 degrees from roughly March until November... That type of climate is far too oppressive for living, breathing rational human beings (in the absence of A/C)... Hopefully the cited article is merely the rantings of a crackpot environmentalist and is not a harbinger of actual legislation being contemplated by the communist-in-chief... although, I wouldn't put it past the Obama/Pelosi/Reid triumverate to push such legislation simply out of spite for Southern states that voted Republican...
I don't have air-conditionining in my home in northernmost New York State. It doesn't get that hot up here near the Canadian border. However, I am definitely not against banning air-conditioning....with just one exception. Air -conditioning should be banned in every government building.
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Last edited by Mr. Conservatism; 07-12-2010 at 07:22 PM.
Ban/tax air conditioning?
