It's 11:10 and 69 degrees out, is your AC still on?

[Tsar]

Originally Posted by JL8Jeff

That's the point. If you waste energy when it's comfortable out, you might not have that energy when you really need it! Extreme heat won't kill you like extreme cold will. If most people had the option of being allowed to use heat during the winter or AC during the summer, which would they pick? Heat of course. I'm not saying to never turn the AC on, but most people turn it on in May and let it run until Nov. Last night it got down to 60 degrees agarin with no humidity. Why would anyone leave their AC on and their house closed up? A complete waste of energy. It's not a matter of cost, it's a matter of limited natural resources. This generation should know much better than my generation about conserving energy but apparently not. But don't worry, Al Gore is watching you and he knows exactly how many kilowatts you have wasted!

dude did you just say that extreme heat WONT kill you? are you serious?
When you're cold you can easily make yourself warmer, you dont need to be a rocket scientists to figure that out. What do you do when its really hot out? you only got so much clothes to take off? I still cant believe that you said heat wont kill you, cuz everyyear hundreads of people die from heat...

P.S. just for the record i would prefer ac in the summer over heat in the winter, ill tell you why if you care, but im pretty sure you dont.

[JL8Jeff]

The people that die from heat are because they don't know what they are doing and don't try to find shade or water to cool off. How many people stand outside in the sub zero cold for no reason? You would die from extreme cold if you had no energy source for heat much sooner than you would die from extreme heat with no energy source for AC. Humans have lived on this planet for a long time with no AC. People adapt to their surroundings and can live in 115 degree heat or extreme cold with no electricty or AC. But we have decided to move in and develop deserts because we have AC and can now live in those conditions! But when the power goes out, people can't live in those conditions because their body isn't adapted to the heat. That is the big problem we're creating. Most Americans have a very small comfort zone nowadays. I can go all summer without AC and it won't kill me. Can you go all winter without any form of heat and survive? Some day you'll understand that wasting energy is not a good thing.

[Tsar]

ok ive passed out from being too hot before, that was when i was a kid tho... so yea im pretty sure i would die faster from being hot then being cold.
Lets see i used to live in Russia and um...during the winter it can be anywhere from 0C to - 40C. Here's a little something about local government. They dont like to turn on the heat for as long as they can get away with it. I remember one time they turned the heat on in Ferbuary... and no you dont have your own personal fireplaces in an apartment building its not like it is here. Have you actually seen frost on your walls when you have up? or how about ice in your sink/bathroom? i have, plenty of times. Also when i was a kid i tryed to get sick so i can skip school - well guess what? sleeping with open windows during the russian winters i didnt get sick even once. All it did to me was made me oblivious to cold. I can care less how cold it is outside cuz i know my body will adopt in less then 5 minutes.

I have the same constant "argument" with my mom that im having with you right now. She's always cold, she needs the heat, she even gets cold when its 80F + out (its beyond me why)... I, on the other hand can wear a tshirt when its -10C out and it feels normal to me. So i guess when the winter time comes around ill switch into your mode and keep telling everyone to turn off the heater cuz, well one of us (me) can take the cold pretty easily, and the rest shouldnt waste energy. sounds about right?

edit* and yes i could go all winter (especially here in US) without heat and survive.

[JL8Jeff]

Well, you might be able to, but 99% of the people in this country can't. And you haven't told us what your gov't was injecting you with when you were a kid!

[Tsar]

Originally Posted by JL8Jeff

Well, you might be able to, but 99% of the people in this country can't. And you haven't told us what your gov't was injecting you with when you were a kid!

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