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My wife dresses for the winter in the summer and has a blanket on hand at her office.

Women are not equipped with a thermostat.

Maybe not, but each and every one of them can in the dark and under bedclothes take their freezing cold feet and place them unerringly square on the back of a man's nice warm testicles.

My damn nose runs if it's below 78.

I used to have to run a heater under my desk at the engineer's office. The fat office ladies would crank it down to 72.

Suppose I'm wierd.

In my wierd defence, I have Leukopenia and wonky bone marrow.

I like it hot

No, you'll pay attention when they finally decide to spend the money to remotely control your house thermostat themselves. It's coming. They've already tried to get everybody around here to install computerized thermostats that let the electric company control people's home temps to "prevent brownouts" during high use periods. Sooner or later they'll require this and/or have some way to get around your home thermostat and control it at the office.

F u c k the electric company. They're currently f u c k i n g everybody up the ass with windmills.

That is being pushed here, and so far as I am concerned they can go get stuffed.

jimmy carter said that in 1974

It's all about control. Sooner or later they'll force it on everybody. If I hit the Powerball, I'm going with a total solar setup.

We had a heat wave several years ago. Preacher had the thermostats set to about 70 before the service began. Some women were complaining about how cold it was. Preacher said when everyone gets in their and after the song service it warmed up quite a bit. He said you can always put on more clothes, be he wasn't taking off any. He said it got hot up there preaching. Made sense to me. Men put off 60 btu's an hour, women 40 btu's an hour body heat. You get 100 people in a room split 50-50, and the congregation puts off 5,000 btu's of heat. Quite a bit. That is why restaurants seem colder, a lot of people build up heat. If you are cooler you eat more hot food. These government workers haven't been in the deep south during a heat wave. Once you turn that ac up, it is hard to get back down. Like some have said, keep it down, the same temp around the clock. Most people sleep better at cooler temps.

Is that the same people who say the grid is fully capable of taking on an electric cars for all us?
I have evap cooling and they still try to get me to install a remote controller. Workmate had one put in and his AC quit running

I set it to 80 during the day and 77 at night.
You know it's hot when 80 feels cool and refreshing.

Mine stays set at 79* 24/7 this time of year. Come late fall through winter it's set at 70*. I have no plans to change that at any time regardless of what Tucson Electric Power may want me to do. Yesterday and today we are under an extreme heat warning with a forecast high of 109.
Paul B.

Very Reaganesque.... I agree.

68 day/66 night in Winter. Cooling is 75 24/7.

Opened the windows last night, turned on the fans.

Woke to 56-58 degrees. Temp outside will approach 90F today. Didn't run the window A/C in the master bdrm yesterday and the house didn't get over 75.

Planning on the same for today.

I love this time of year with the nearly 50 degree temperature swings.

Geno

PS, good insulation and thermal curtains help a whole bunch. The new deck cover we installed on the west side of the house too. Keeps the afternoon sun off 25' of the side of the house.

PS, and I'll agree with some of the other desert dwellers. 80 in the house feels downright chilly when it's over 110F.

74 from spring until fall , it gets set & never touched.

My electric company tells me I use more than average electricity than my neighbors. They are full of schit. You know how I know they are full of schit ? A large percentage of my neighbors live in old ass houses that have 2x4 exterior walls with little or no insulation. My house has 2x6 exterior walls with R19 in the walls , R30 in the attic , R25 in the floor.
You know another way I know they are full of schit ? My electric bills are lower than most of my neighbors , year round.


Mike

Set mine on 68 and it only comes on about 10 days during the summer.

Mine is set on 72 for ac and 70 for heat. It is never touched.

Yup as well when humidity is extremely low 79-80 inside with a slight fan breeze can seem nice when its 100+ outside. Interesting thats how AC works best with a 20 degree split between intake and output. The low night temps really make it more bearable. I can drop the inside temp to 65-67 in about two hours from 5am to 7am when the temp is at least 59 outside. Close up house and it doesn't hit 78-80 till 6-7pm this time of year.

A push of Mid Pacific moisture is gonna move in the next five days and keep the night temps high also raising humidity a little. Sucks.

we are tightwads. have to be. Have never made much money.

So we did a lot of testing.

The best thing I found is moving to Alaska. 58 in the house this morning and no AC.. LMAO.

In TX keeping it on 82 during the day, then 78-80 when we get home, then 76-78 about an hour before bedtime till time to get up, kept it cool, and the bill the lowest.

Why you would warm it up to sleep is nuts to me.

Keeping at 85 during the day was working the unit to hard to catch up. Less than 82 it was running a bit to much and cool when no one was there but Tiger.