Who turned off the A.C. so they could get some more hot air?

[lonestarnot]

Bushitler's only answer to the energy crisis. Can we make it 6 and 1/2 more months. I was having my doubts just a couple of weeks ago. :shrug:

[1monster]

1. We're having the silent thermostat wars here... I turn it up to 85-90 degree range. My husband and

son turn it down to 75 degrees...

I seem to have won that war for last month because I just got the electric bill yesterday and it was $25.00 less than the month before. We used about three hundred kilowatt hours less this month than the same month last year. (And my bill was still $235.)

Now, if I can only keep that thermostat up even higher for the coming hot months... FPL has announced a double digit increase in electric rates.

[Mojorabbit]

2. Opposite here

I am menopausal and am keeping it at 74 while hubby keeps turing it up to 80.

[kcass1954]

6. Same here.

I do the best I can, but there's only so many clothes I can take off while the kids are still at home. And I have to crank it down while I'm getting ready for work in the morning to head off the 8:20 hot flash.

"I don't know why we spent the money for a programmable thermostat. Every time I turn around, you've got the damn thing on bypass!"

[1monster]

7. Menopausal here, too, BUT... I don't get hot flashes. I get cold flashes.

There have been times when I've been so cold that I have literally shivered. Fortunately, it is a rare occurance.

I guess the tendency to cool off quickly is and advantage in the summer, especially in Florida.

But it nearly killed me when I lived up north.

[lonestarnot]

3. I haven't turned my on yet. Still swamp'n. That big one is a dandy!

:P Only $120 last month.

[1monster]

4. About 1990, our outside unit packed it in and it took the air conditioning people something over a

week to get the new one installed.

By the time the A/C was working agian, I had shoes and belts in the closets covered in green mold...

On the other hand, during the hurricanes of 2005, we were without power for an aggregate of 20 days and I didn't notice any mold after that, even though the humidity was very high.

I'd keep it at 90 if I could, but I'm afraid there would be mutiny and I don't wanna be (figuratively) tossed overboard.

A $234.00 bill for this time of year is terrific. I'm usually paying something between $300 and $375.

[cobalt1999]

5. I rarely use the A/C and I'm in Florida

People always say it's required, but 70 years ago, nobody had it.

[1monster]

8. True, but seventy years ago, people built houses with cross ventilation--

Windows in every wall and the front door was diretly opposite the back door.

You can still see those old "cracker box" houses and "shot gun cottages" in the older parts of Florida.

Then developers took over the state, and with air conditioning easily available, they built houses like they were building for a different climate.

[cobalt1999]

12. That's true.

People got used to cheap energy and built/bought homes that require an A/C now.

Luckily, I just never liked A/C, so when we designed our house, I modeled it after the old cracker houses with high ceilings, cross ventilation, and wrap around porches that keep the sun out of the windows.

[EFerrari]

9. BushCo is in full frontal looting mode.

My family went from fine to struggling on all fronts in three months. We'll outlast the bastards but it isn't going to be pretty.

[MrSlayer]

10. Just flip your electric meter for 8 days a month.

It's a good way to keep the bill down. These guys fuck you all they can, I feel it is my duty to fuck them back at every opportunity.

[lonestarnot]

13. LOL

I wouldn't know how to do that even if I wanted to, and recently installed new meters read with hand held something er others. With my luck, I'd increase my bill. :P

[Rockholm]

11. Move to New England.

We really don't need a/c except for the humidity! I practically live on the water and have natural a/c when the wind comes from the southwest. The humidity, however, sucks the life out of me.

[NightWatcher]

14. this winter (bush will say) "save money on heating oils, wear a sweater (or a parka)