Posted on 02/27/2009 5:10:36 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
The Pocatello area is high desert. At 4600 ft, it is on the eastern edge of the Snake River plain and at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
There is a nice summary graph from The Weather Channel at this link. You can click the record high/record low boxes to see the limits. Those graphs are averages at the airport which is 7 miles west. It's common around the 4th of July to have evening temperatures in mid 80's. Late afternoons in the mid to high 90's is common most of the summer. I cut may lawn after 6 PM in the summer when it cools down.
The weather chart doesn't show the good news. It's dry here. Summer heat is enjoyable without miserable levels of humidity. It does require attention to hydration. As in any desert, you can become dehydrated quickly. The altitude also plays with your sinuses for the first month or two after moving to this area. Once you adapt, it's just fine.
I have a nice wood pile for my wood burning stove in the family room. We only light a fire on evenings when we have time for a movie. A single log makes enough heat to warm the whole house. That obviously saves on natural gas. The house is properly constructed for the environment. It is very heat efficient. The bedrooms are upstairs. It's easy to keep them comfortable warm in the winter. The basement is my refuge from the summer heat. It stays around +63F all year.
But I thought that the “middle class” was not going to see “one dime” of tax increases?
Sounds like you have a good setup for minimizing energy costs. Yes, I like dry heat - we moved from the CA Mojave Desert to Corpus Christi. The humidity was absolutely terrible (for everything except my skin). Even 50 degrees seemed very chilly because of the humidity and summers were unbearably hot from May until September, 24 hours a day. At least with dry heat, it cools down when the sun goes down.
Aside from the obvious impact on energy prices, this will lead to other unintended consequences as well.
Suffocation deaths because people are burning kerosene heaters without vents.
Fires from same.
Farmers will burn their corn for heat and power generation instead of selling it for food.
Homegrown composters to make methane gas, capture sewer gas and various other in sundry devices to level neighborhoods.
Black market sale of anything that will burn for heat.
Homemade generators, rendering powerline work a deadly experience.
It's not going to be "one dime". It's going to be thousands of dollars of increases.
Recall the story of the mother who warns her children about eating a plate of cookies. She tells them, "Don't eat one". She returns to find ONE cookie left.
FDR kept America's head under water with his policies and won 3 elections just by blaming it all on Hoover. Obama will just keep blaming it on Bush and the idiots will keep buying that story.
This Global Warming / Carbon Cap nonsense is potentially the end of free enterprise in America and the world. It will give governments everywhere the ability to control every aspect of our lives -- and it's all predicated on a lie.
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