Tyler, I think you are confusing times when we had checks and balances in
government.
Now things are different, if Co-President Obama wants something,
Co-President Pelosi and Co-President Reid will pass it even if they don't
agree. They know that when they want something, Co-President Obama will
sign it as pay back.
This is what Acorn and some voters wanted, so its what we must live with.
Harry
The reds already took your guns and brainwashed your children, and now
they're coming for your air conditioning! Don't they have any shame?
Seriously, neither that or anything like it will happen in the near
future. You can't legislate environmental ethics or social responsibility
to a people without one; you just can't- there's zero risk of that
happening. Carol Browner might as well try to shave a snow leopard for
all her efforts will get her. Our culture is beginning to form a sense of
environmental ethics because it's starting to experience firsthand the
effects of not having one. That (not laws) will get people to shut off
their thermostats if they truly don't need them (most don't, some do). I
think and hope that humans are smart enough to choose survival over minor
physical discomfort, once the choice makes itself obvious and necessary.
At the risk of sounding arrogant, that choice has already made itself
obvious to some people, but not obvious enough for others (yet). It's
difficult and takes time for people to realize that a fundamental
assumption in their culture is wrong, but it can happen eventually.
I haven't really used heat or AC significantly for about 5 years, and I
don't feel that it has changed my quality of life in any significant way,
other than having more money for things I find more important, and
feeling good about not using resources I don't need. In the winter I wear
warm clothes and pile up the blankets, and in the summer I wear light
clothes and open the windows. I used to live in Corvallis, OR where it
freezes in the winter, and I now live in Riverside, CA where it gets as
hot at 110F in the summer. One winter it stayed below freezing for 2
weeks solid, and I had an electric bill of only $10 that month (split
between 2 people, $5 each)- and I did not experience any discomfort. I
find it amazing that (with the proper clothing) the human body can be
very comfortable over a 20F range, fairly comfortable over an 80F or
greater temperature range, and yet people feel the need to spend huge
sums of money to keep their houses within a 2-3 degree temperature range.
I just don't see the point!
Also, I've found that with intelligent use of the windows and blinds, I
can usually keep the house about 30 degrees warmer or cooler than ambient
temperature, so I really can keep the interior between 60F and 80F when
the outside temp swings between 30F and 110F, without using any heat or
AC...
Sincerely,
Tyler
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