Posted on 08/12/2019 6:05:16 AM PDT by C19fan
We think of air conditioning as a “first world” luxury, but it’s really more of an American one. In Europe, fewer than 5% of households have air conditioning, according to the International Energy Agency, and even in hot regions like Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, only 8% of households have it. In the US, nearly 90% of households are air conditioned.
In New York, where the summer reverberates with the hum of air conditioners, that percentage seems even higher. Along certain avenues, you walk in a sprinkle of condensation dripping from row after row of window units above, never quite sure if you’re supposed to be disgusted. In Queens, where I live, one of my neighbors runs their window unit almost all year long, cooling their apartment in winter against the steam radiator that the landlord keeps on full blast around the clock, and in summer against, well, the summer. The poor unit only gets a couple months of rest a year, in the spring and the fall, though even then the person often runs it in fan mode, probably because the sudden absence of the machine’s roar is so unnerving.
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Ditch your freedoms, you’ll be fine
Yup, just try to live in the Deep South without ac
8 years in New Orleans, 14 in Atlanta
Let’s see our politicians and bureaucrats lose THEIR a/c first.
..then.. MAYBE we’ll talk.
Europe and the British Isles have a different climate than the US. The western side of a continent has better weather than the eastern side. Florida, where I live, would be uninhabitable without air conditioning.
Refrigeration and heating in the winter are also over-rated. All you “woke” people should give those up too. No-one needed for thousands of years either! Save the planet!
I’ll bet Franklin’s office building is air conditioned. You go first, Frankie.
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That was my first thought as well. Most of Texas would not be inhabited if it were not for A/C.
I deal with refrigeration problems at work from time to time, don’t actually make the repairs, but report them, and often talk to the service guys.
One of them told me last week that the majority of “global warming” comes from refrigerant leaks.
Of course, he’s in the business of repairing those leaks, and in telling me how important it is to repair those leaks....
Check the difference in latitudes between europe and The US - that's why we have A/C.
If they want to do that, knock themselves out and they can feel so much better. Me, nope not giving it up.
This is pretty funny. Ask anyone in Phoenix how they would like it there without air conditioning.
I moved to rural KY from Seattle 8 years ago. We didn’t have AC in Seattle It was fine. The air is fairly dry and on those few days a year when it DOES get hot, it’s totally bearable. And because the air is relatively dry, we used to leave the windows open during the cool nights and seal the house up when the air got warm in the morning. It worked fine.
That being said, I tell people that I would not have moved to Kentucky if God had not invented air conditioning. Older homes here have “sleeping porches”. There is a reason for that.
Yes, we COULD function without air conditioning. And we could function without cars, clean water and penicillin. And we could bundle up all winter and not heat our homes like they did in China. But why?
Fact is, there is a reason they have “siesta” in Mexico. And there is a reason people move so slow. It’s hot. I work on my 32 acres in 90+ heat and high humidity, but I drink lots of water and I move pretty slow.
Europe is a milder climate. Like Seattle, they can get by pretty comfortably without AC. I doubt Vegas would exist without it.
Yeah...thats why thousands die in “woke” EU during heat waves...NO THANKS.
Considering that much of Europe is basically on a similar Latitude as Canada it is understandable that only 5% have AC.
It will be around 105 F today on the heat index. No thanks. I will keep the air conditioning on.
The Left would rather have thousands of us die from the heat the way they do in France.
That’s one of the reasons it might be hard for any sort of widespread sustained civil unrest to occur. It’s hard to take to the streets in the heat when everyone is so used to cold AC.
Freegards
“and even in hot regions like Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, only 8% of households have it.”
Hahahaha.. As someone who has spent time in a few of these places.. if you are going to start listing what these places don’t have vs America, and make the fact they don’t have or use them as a justification for America not to have or use them... Enjoy watching your children die, and see your live expectancy drop to about 50.
The only reason Florida is habitable is AC.
We don’t need here in Appalachia but it is nice to have.
We were in Vegas a couple weeks ago. There was a covered two block area of city street in the north strip area that was air conditioned.
If Vegas ditched air-conditioning they would instantly go bankrupt.
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