Posted on 08/21/2008 6:30:46 AM PDT by libstripper
Aug. 21, 2008 | When I moved into my apartment, in May, the first thing I did was tear out the air conditioners. I don't need air conditioning: My front window is 50 yards from Lake Michigan, and, as any Chicago weatherperson will tell you, "It's cooler by the lake." I can't afford it, either: Three window units can add serious dollars to one's monthly electric bill. But those aren't the real reasons I got rid of the A/C.
Air conditioning offends my sense of Northern pride. They have a saying in Maine: "If you can't stand the winters, you don't deserve the summers." But the air conditioner allows Arizonans to enjoy a cool, lakelike breeze in the comfort of their living rooms, without ever having to buy snow tires. As one who has seen firsthand how the Sun Belt created a poor Yankee cousin called the Rust Belt, I blame the air conditioner for the decay of Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo, N.Y. I blame it for the decline of the American labor movement. And I blame it for the election of George W. Bush, as well as the fact that we haven't elected a Yankee president in nearly 50 years. Honestly, I don't want something like that in my house. Especially if I have to pay for it.
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It’s kind of like that “What white people like” website. Only it’s “What liberal or progressive idiots like”
No kidding he will. Remember the 1995 Heat Wave?
Hopefully we'll have a repeat and this maroon will curl up in his pathetic little environmentally friendly apartment and die...
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“Is Big AC going to be the next evil SUV?”
Absolutely, and I’m not joking. Then it will be “big toilet paper.” The Watermelons, in their malignant effort to destroy our way of life, pick one target, blast it, and move on to the next. Just to spite them, I drive a Navigator and set my summer thermostat to 68 here in Knoxvile, TN, meaning I have some big summer electric bills.
Just cuz a damn Texan says it doesn't mean it's so.............hoss.
“Just cuz a damn Texan says it doesn’t mean it’s so.”
But that’s how the smart money bets.
Whatever you say, genius.
It’s about control. This is the start of a plan (in the name of glowbull warm-ring, and saving the friggin planet) to put more and escalating taxes on electricity use, so that if you are consuming more kilowatt hours than Obama’s brother in his hut in Africa, you will be subject to a tax rate on your electric bill that gets ever higher, the more electricity that you use.
Freedom ain’t free anymore in the US of A.
Glad you recognize it. Many non-Texans let jealousy cloud their judgment.
I believe the cloud is inside your cranial cavity.
A brain cloud.......................
“I believe the cloud is inside your cranial cavity.
A brain cloud.......................”
Nah. . . you’re jes’ lookin’ in the mirror, that’s all.
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