That was a lot easier than ripping out everyone’s central air or stealing all of their window and portable ACs :)
And see what republican EVER gets elected again if they wanted to monitor ALL of our thermostats.
But you’re right, in 10 to 20 years all of these will be gone and if they set standards for ACs to blow no lower than 82, that would do it.
And there would be NO REASON to buy it in HUGE SWATHS of the country.
There’s not something REPLACING it, like the light bulb, that some companies could make a fortune off of.
This will STOP sales in their TRACKS.
Why would I get an AC for the 40 days it’s above 88 in NY every year?
Stock up on old school mechanical bitmetal and coil thermostats. They’ll be worth a lot of the black market after the imperial senate mandates the new Darth Miser smart thermostats
I lived in NM for many years, most of it was in Silver City. It was over 6,000 feet elevation and mountain tops near by were over 9,000 ft. Natural air conditioning. Like you, only about 3 weeks a year when AC was needed and swamp coolers were more than adequate. And very cheap to operate.
I own a home at the farm that I plan to move back into in the spring. When I complete upgrades. When it was built there were no swamp coolers as such. They had window pads on some windows and an exhaust fan in the center of the house that drew air from the windows unto the space in the attic area and it exhausted in the attic vents. Very efficient. And there was NO EPA or Department of Energy. When my ancestors moved to this part of Texas in 1889, (the county was cut up in 1885) there were no roads (only trails), no electric power, little water and it was a very harsh place to settle. A number of branches of that hardy group still live here.
They Department of Energy and EPA can pound sand.