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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:21:58 PM EST
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Maybe if people owned an EV they would save enough on fuel costs to pay for A/C
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:24:33 PM EST
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Quoted: Maybe if people owned an EV they would save enough on fuel costs to pay for A/C But, but, but I recycle |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:24:59 PM EST
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Love to here how they are going to lower the temperatures. Nothing the USA can do will change a fucking thing.
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:26:04 PM EST
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Maybe if everyone wasn’t in a race to see who can cool the biggest McMansion, their bills wouldn’t be so high.
Fuck em. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:27:52 PM EST
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Let's close natural gas and coal power plants so that electricity cost more.
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:28:33 PM EST
[#6]
Welcome to living in the South. If we can afford AC then anyone can.
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:29:13 PM EST
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What sounds more logical, a 1 degree increase in average temperatures causes electric costs to double or the cost of electricity doubled?
Hmmmmmmm |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:29:24 PM EST
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Bullshit. Absolute psyop, gaslighting bullshit.
What makes your electric bills too high isn't global warming. It's politicians purposefully destroying the dollar, using the power of the federal government to shut down cheap power plants, and forcing a move to unreliable, expensive energy. You have to be an absolute fool to believe that. High prices and shortages are being driven onto the American people, and the poor will pay first. Between clean natural gas and nuclear alone, we could produce more power than we need for 30% cheaper than our current prices if the government got out of the way. This is an agenda-driven, garbage article. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:33:11 PM EST
[#9]
$720 for an average summer bill seems ridiculous.
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:34:27 PM EST
[#10]
I drive around with my windows down and AC all the way up to help out those in need.
I’m doing my part. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:34:28 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Bullshit. Absolute psyop, gaslighting bullshit. What makes your electric bills too high isn't global warming. It's politicians purposefully destroying the dollar, using the power of the federal government to shut down cheap power plants, and forcing a move to unreliable, expensive energy. You have to be an absolute fool to believe that. High prices and shortages are being driven onto the American people, and the poor will pay first. Between clean natural gas and nuclear alone, we could produce more power than we need for 30% cheaper than our current prices if the government got out of the way. This is an agenda-driven, garbage article. Not totally accurate. You need eminent domain to build pipelines and T-lines. Everyone knows that they can bend utilities over on right of ways if the government doesn’t tell the property owners to eat a peep. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:35:58 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Maybe if people owned an EV they would save enough on fuel costs to pay for A/C  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:36:33 PM EST
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I've yet to turn mine on this year. Mostly because it's broken, but still it hasn't been uncomfortable with the windows open.
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:36:46 PM EST
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My house is all electric and I live in satan’s taint for summer heat..
My bill isn’t anywhere near half of $720 a month. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:36:53 PM EST
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:38:07 PM EST
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I wish, it's 57 here now.
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:40:38 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not totally accurate. You need eminent domain to build pipelines and T-lines. Everyone knows that they can bend utilities over on right of ways if the government doesn’t tell the property owners to eat a peep. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Bullshit. Absolute psyop, gaslighting bullshit. What makes your electric bills too high isn't global warming. It's politicians purposefully destroying the dollar, using the power of the federal government to shut down cheap power plants, and forcing a move to unreliable, expensive energy. You have to be an absolute fool to believe that. High prices and shortages are being driven onto the American people, and the poor will pay first. Between clean natural gas and nuclear alone, we could produce more power than we need for 30% cheaper than our current prices if the government got out of the way. This is an agenda-driven, garbage article. Not totally accurate. You need eminent domain to build pipelines and T-lines. Everyone knows that they can bend utilities over on right of ways if the government doesn’t tell the property owners to eat a peep. We have the infrastructure right now. Upgrading for higher transmission throughput isn't a hard stop, even if more property rights are needed. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:42:58 PM EST
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They misspelled renewable energy
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:46:09 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We have the infrastructure right now. Upgrading for higher transmission throughput isn't a hard stop, even if more property rights are needed. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Bullshit. Absolute psyop, gaslighting bullshit. What makes your electric bills too high isn't global warming. It's politicians purposefully destroying the dollar, using the power of the federal government to shut down cheap power plants, and forcing a move to unreliable, expensive energy. You have to be an absolute fool to believe that. High prices and shortages are being driven onto the American people, and the poor will pay first. Between clean natural gas and nuclear alone, we could produce more power than we need for 30% cheaper than our current prices if the government got out of the way. This is an agenda-driven, garbage article. Not totally accurate. You need eminent domain to build pipelines and T-lines. Everyone knows that they can bend utilities over on right of ways if the government doesn’t tell the property owners to eat a peep. We have the infrastructure right now. Upgrading for higher transmission throughput isn't a hard stop, even if more property rights are needed. News to me. I’ll pass it along that everything is cool. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:48:17 PM EST
[#20]
Without AC mankind is well and truly lost
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Posted: 6/10/2024 6:54:13 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My house is all electric and I live in satan’s taint for summer heat.. My bill isn’t anywhere near half of $720 a month. Yeah we're usually around $250/mo in summer (but the gas bill is like $25, and in winter they flip). The way that's worded it might mean for the entire summer, which would be about right for us. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:00:24 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Let's close natural gas and coal power plants so that electricity cost more.  |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:01:59 PM EST
[#23]
Uh huh. This year it has been cooler than normal at my house, yet my electric bill is higher. Almost like the rate has gone up, not my usage.
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:02:29 PM EST
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We haven't hit $200 a month yet and I keep mine on 71 degrees.
If things got too expensive we would turn it off and just take the dogs and go to the lake or pool every day. Last week my son spent three 12 hour days at the hanger with no AC. Today he spent several hours at our pond doing bank maintenance digging etc. People are just week, get outside and the heat won't be such a burden. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:03:48 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Without AC mankind is well and truly lost 
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:07:33 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: News to me. I’ll pass it along that everything is cool. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Bullshit. Absolute psyop, gaslighting bullshit. What makes your electric bills too high isn't global warming. It's politicians purposefully destroying the dollar, using the power of the federal government to shut down cheap power plants, and forcing a move to unreliable, expensive energy. You have to be an absolute fool to believe that. High prices and shortages are being driven onto the American people, and the poor will pay first. Between clean natural gas and nuclear alone, we could produce more power than we need for 30% cheaper than our current prices if the government got out of the way. This is an agenda-driven, garbage article. Not totally accurate. You need eminent domain to build pipelines and T-lines. Everyone knows that they can bend utilities over on right of ways if the government doesn’t tell the property owners to eat a peep. We have the infrastructure right now. Upgrading for higher transmission throughput isn't a hard stop, even if more property rights are needed. News to me. I’ll pass it along that everything is cool. Go for it. Take it however you want, but I'm pretty sure that I didn't say that "everything is cool." Quite the opposite. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:07:47 PM EST
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It feels great outside right now which is abnormal vs usually sweating just looking outside. Literally look out the windows and you get swamp ass this time of year.
Middle Alabama forcast for tomorrow. 
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:11:43 PM EST
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Cheap power of yesterday made some uninhabitable places livable. Regulations and taxes may return those places to nature.
Then you have Neom which says all you need is unlimited income from everyone else. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:12:02 PM EST
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:12:32 PM EST
[#30]
It's not the heat making it expensive, it's the stupid green policy bullshit driving prices up.
Quoted: My house is all electric and I live in satan’s taint for summer heat.. My bill isn’t anywhere near half of $720 a month. Was gonna say, I had a small-ish (1200sqft) that was 20 years old and my highest bill, after the big hike in the summer of '22 was about $250. My new house will be just over 2000 square feet, but it is brand new, and the builder is a very good builder. It should be pretty efficient. I do wonder if Texas has it a bit better than other states, as far as our electric rates. I know Kali is a lot higher. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:13:58 PM EST
[#31]
If it costs me $100 more a month to stay cool I'll skip eating out one night a month and eat at home.
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:16:33 PM EST
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Maybe if everyone wasn’t in a race to see who can cool the biggest McMansion, their bills wouldn’t be so high. Fuck em. Fuck that this is America. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:20:47 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Fuck that this is America. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Maybe if everyone wasn’t in a race to see who can cool the biggest McMansion, their bills wouldn’t be so high. Fuck em. Fuck that this is America. In principle I agree, but this is America in the year of our Lord 2024. Somehow congress will bail out people who make 200k but can’t afford to cool their 8700 square foot bungalow. I mean… think of the children for God’s sake! |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:28:02 PM EST
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No the war on energy has made the shit expensive. Fucking POS leftists
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:32:34 PM EST
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Build a fancy basement and it will stay cool year-round.
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:37:45 PM EST
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Scientific American is neither scientific nor American. It's a German owned rag, and spews all the BS that comes
along with that. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:38:55 PM EST
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What did people do before HVAC was invented in 1902?
 The First Air Conditioner | That’s a First |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:43:11 PM EST
[#38]
Pffft.... in 64 and haven't lived in an air conditioned house in 45 years. And the 20 year old truck that I've owned for 9 or 10 years is the first vehicle I've owned where the a/c lasted past the first summer.
Somehow I've survived. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:43:53 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What did people do before HVAC was invented in 1902?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp4LuKGDNeoThe didn't live where it was 110+ during the summer. Sure, a small few did, but big booming cities in the desert didn't start growing until central AC was affordable, so sometime during the 60's. Also, swamp coolers did bridge the gap for a few decades. Homes built in Phoenix through the 70's and 80's still had swap coolers tandem to the AC units. We still use swamp coolers at work, and as long as the humidity is down, they work fine at keeping an enclosed space in the lower 80's..which isn't great, but it's totally livable, especially if you have good fans and air circulation. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:48:44 PM EST
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It's hard to feel sorry for them after you've spent a summer in a tent in the desert and it's 120 degrees outside.
At least they have showers and a refrigerator. People survived for centuries with out AC and still do today. The Bedouin have it a he'll of lot hotter then here. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:48:49 PM EST
[#41]
 it has been really cool on my early morning runs here in N AL.
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Posted: 6/10/2024 7:58:16 PM EST
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I can afford so much AC I added a mini split to my garage.
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Posted: 6/10/2024 8:08:34 PM EST
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I'll bet if we reduced government by 85% the world would start to cool down rapidly.
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Posted: 6/10/2024 8:10:47 PM EST
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Posted: 6/10/2024 8:11:04 PM EST
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"largely because..." that's the marker for "upcoming unsubstantiated bullsh!t" in a supposedly scientifically-based article.
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Posted: 6/10/2024 8:12:04 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The didn't live where it was 110+ during the summer. Sure, a small few did, but big booming cities in the desert didn't start growing until central AC was affordable, so sometime during the 60's. Texas was founded in 1845. A/C wasn't invented. There were more than a "small few" Texans. It gets up to 110F in Texas. We have become soft. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 8:16:48 PM EST
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 Obama: "Under my plan electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket" |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 8:29:31 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My house is all electric and I live in satan’s taint for summer heat.. My bill isn’t anywhere near half of $720 a month. No kidding, I'd love to know who's paying $720 a month. I live in steamy FL and my biggest bill in the last year was $255 in August 23 - avg daily high temp 94. Keep it at 77 during the day, 75 at night. |
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Posted: 6/10/2024 8:41:08 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Maybe if people owned an EV they would save enough on fuel costs to pay for A/C 
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Posted: 6/10/2024 8:54:49 PM EST
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This is an odd and contradictory angle from the left.
They've in the past have tried to demonize air conditioning because it's the largest electricity user in the average household. They want that electricity for charging electric cars. They quickly found out that's a very unpopular tack and gave up on it pretty quick. |
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