Posted on 02/01/2021 12:40:22 PM PST by KeyLargo
68 degrees is the lowest I’ll keep my thermostat during the winter. I won’t go lower than that.
I remember it was 55.
Had a co-worker who inflicted that on his poor stuck at home family.
Yep, I’m stocking up on popcorn to watch the Snowflakesl cry and whine when they can’t get gas and power to all their devices stops. LOL!
We’re both retired, and we farm. We never go anywhere, anyway, other than to Farm & Fleet for parts, LOL! ;)
We set the thermostat to 63 at night. I makes sleeping much easier. It’s actually easier to breathe, but such is tougher getting up for the midnight runs to the bathroom.
Otherwise we keep it at 69.
With our new house we’ve been running the wood stove, and that is nice.
`My furnace had problems this January. I was waiting for parts for a couple of weeks. Even though the temperature got in the 20’s and 30’s at night we never got to 55 degrees. Georgians probably didn’t get to 70.
The GD rag heads oil embargo.
Instead of drilling for more, the dumb son of a b cried like a baby and told us to get used to it all.
Then the asshole turned most of Alaska into a wilderness area.
The 55 mph speed limit was imposed by Nixon.
I remember when some people with money bought underground fuel tanks and paid to have the tanks buried and filled with fuel on their property.
Also, people drove around with cans of gas in their car trunks, and sometimes in rear end collisions everyone was cremated.
Also, the fumes from the gas cans in the trunk would overcome the drivers and they would pass out at the wheel.
Carter awlays liked to let you know he was an enginneer & had been trained in the Navy Nuclear program. In action he was remarkably ill-informed about enegy & energy production. I have a feeling he was actually a crappy submarine nuclear prolusion engineer hence his brief Navy career.
another FAKe crisis perpetrated by government incompetence, they sure do love controlling the masses with lies.
When’s our malaise speech coming?
In the cold northern states, a 55 degree temp would have the heater/furnace running 24/7 because the outside temp was less than freezing (32 degrees. . . . . MUCH less than freezing most of the time), so more electricity was used on your electric pump or furnace.
To this day .... he's never thought clearly through a single situation
I remember being on a weekend jaunt to Michigan in the winter and on Sunday afternoon there were no gas stations open, but I found some at an Ohio Turnpike rest stop.
“people are buoyed up by a vibrant music scene”
Like “Stayin’ Alive”?
I looked it up, though I hate to post a link to the New York Times. Here it is:
HOWEVER, there may well have been a different edict for nighttime. I didn’t want to spend that much time at the New York Times and just went with the headline :)
that’s right - I had forgotten about the double-DST ! It was dark until 8:30 or later.
It was all sold to us as ‘there’s nothing we can do...’ and it was our fault anyway for not all buying small cars.
My dad looked into getting a 50 gallon barrel and stocking up on gas for emergencies, but half the problem was being able to find a place that would sell you 50 gallons!
The thermostat at my place starts at 60. LOL
And yes it is oldfashioned and not digital.
Mr PeaNUT, worthless President.
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