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In the heat wave, the case against air conditioning
Washington Post ^ | Sunday, July 11, 2010 | Stan Cox

Posted on 07/12/2010 6:51:50 AM PDT by Newton

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To: Newton

We don’t need an egghead to tell our family about the environment, climate change, blah, blah, blah.

We haven’t turned on the AC yet, and are doing pretty good. Yes it’s hot, and our friend think we’re crazy.

But when you live in a windy area and you use your fans to direct air into your house on the correct side of the house when the sun isn’t shining in and heating it up, you can keep your temps down.

I really really really like my $73 electric bill, just don’t care to enrich the electric company this year. You get used to it. What the heck did humanity do before this? But heck no, nope, I really don’t need them telling me why I shouldn’t cool my house, this is my Galt thing :)


21 posted on 07/12/2010 7:02:37 AM PDT by SaintDismas
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To: Newton

greeenhouse gas emitters

What fools fall for this quasi-religious bull!


22 posted on 07/12/2010 7:02:49 AM PDT by Chickensoup (The Acting President....is an incompetent puppet of Soros.)
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To: Newton

Let’s make a surprise visit to Mr Cox’s house on some 95 degree afternoon and see what we find comfort-wise.And for that matter let’s see if we see three Land Rovers parked next to the Prius in the driveway.


23 posted on 07/12/2010 7:02:53 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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To: Newton

Whats wrong with this idiot?

Lets unplug his refrigerator too


24 posted on 07/12/2010 7:03:15 AM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
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To: massgopguy

When the elderly die from laws passed regulating the devices that keep them alive and comfortable - In France and soon in the US - ....

.... It’s no accident.


25 posted on 07/12/2010 7:03:18 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Newton
This really should be in the Onion.

It should be. The Washington Post should go first, set an example, and give up their AC!

As a matter of fact, our home AC gave up its ghost early last Tuesday morning, and my computer did NOT enjoy the 100-degree temperatures in my home office. It's unlikely that the author would be able to write stories like that without air conditioning.

26 posted on 07/12/2010 7:04:59 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Newton
What an absolute asshole. I wrote this clown back and told him if he wanted to live without AC, be my guest.

I have an type of environmental asthma that is triggered by hot stuffy environments, severely limiting the venues I can participate in and making AC an absolute requirement.

Guys like this author are at the top of my list of people the world doesn't need.

27 posted on 07/12/2010 7:05:08 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: Newton
*This really should be in the Onion*

You mean this is NOT from the Onion?

NOW I know where “all the scientists have a consensus” came from.

Al Gore was reading the Onion and they were making fun of him. He just didn't realize it. He figured the Onion knew a lot more than the 31,000 scientists that say AGW is a scam http://www.petitionproject.org/.

Maybe that's where he found out that it's “several million degrees” 2km beneath the Earth's surface.

28 posted on 07/12/2010 7:05:21 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: Newton

Start with the government. If there are a few months a year where the Congressional chambers and offices and other government offices are not inhabitable, then the country will be far safer (Pentagon excepted because the DoD is actually necessary).


29 posted on 07/12/2010 7:05:47 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
They want us to live in caves...

No, that would be encroachment on a natural habitat. Suicide is better for Gaia.

30 posted on 07/12/2010 7:05:54 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: Newton

I’d support a bill to shut off all A/C in the District of Columbia for two years, as a test.


31 posted on 07/12/2010 7:06:05 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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To: Newton

What else would one expect to see in the WaPo.


32 posted on 07/12/2010 7:09:20 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: Newton

The WaPo comments were encouraging. I think there were only one or two supporters, the rest told him to go to hell ! Lots of people picked up on the obvious progressive-solicalist-green agenda, and many people suggested Washington DC turn theirs of first.


33 posted on 07/12/2010 7:09:24 AM PDT by Red Boots
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To: massgopguy
Less than five years ago, tens of thousands of senior citizens died in France because they don’t allow air conditioning.

Don't give 0bamao's goons any new ideas on how to kill off Senior Citizens. They already have a Death Panel that has their name.

34 posted on 07/12/2010 7:11:12 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (The usurper 0bama regime is a "Clear and Present Danger" to AMERICA! - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Leroy S. Mort

We added a window unit to our bedroom to get it down to 65F. I feel no guilt whatsoever.


35 posted on 07/12/2010 7:12:13 AM PDT by firebasecody (Orthodoxy, telling it straight since AD 33)
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To: Newton

The need to shut down the air conditioning in Congress and the White House. That might slow down their socialist agendas.


36 posted on 07/12/2010 7:12:26 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Newton

OK, let Congress and the federal government take the lead and show us an example by turning AC off in all of their buildings.


37 posted on 07/12/2010 7:13:27 AM PDT by devere
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To: Newton

When we bought our house last summer, we didn’t think we needed AC. Neither of us had lived with it before. Yes, it gets hot in the Philly suburbs, but we thought we’d weather through it. We’re going to put it in this fall (because of other work we’re having done, it doesn’t make sense to do it before). We dive into our AC bedroom and basically live there and try not to go out in the rest of the house. It’s not a way to live. To top it all, we got infested with fleas this summer and are working at getting them out. The only relief I get from the itchy bites is to retreat in air. This man is SOO full of it. If he’s not married, then he should stay single.


38 posted on 07/12/2010 7:14:10 AM PDT by twigs
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To: bray

CO2 is good for plants and has no greenhouse effects. So crank up the AC.

Pray for America


I often ask if they teach the carbon cycle in schools anymore.....................


39 posted on 07/12/2010 7:15:18 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: Newton

While this buffoon types from his air conditioned office


40 posted on 07/12/2010 7:15:53 AM PDT by italianquaker (obama all hat no cattle)
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