[meyer]

"The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office is asking all residents of the unincorporated county to lower their thermostats by 10 degrees to reduce the pressure on current natural gas supplies."

Ummnnnn, wouldn't reducing thermostats by 10 degrees tend to raise pressure? And isn't low pressure the problem?

[NewMexLurker]

And isn't low pressure the problem?

You are exactly correct, of course. The Sheriff's Office should have used some other word besides "pressure" in their statement. Maybe "stress" or "demand".