Good old radio had a public service announcement today where: "to save the planet" turn the heat down 5 to 8 degrees. With no drilling and Polis and friends wanting solar electric I may end up burning the neighbors ( dem) fence and then his tires

Right out of the Jimmy Carter playbook.

Told us all to turn to 68 degrees in the winter. Carter wore his sweater in the White House. Said American exceptionalism was dead.

Reagan said Phouc that! American exceptionalism has just started.

Obama said “Phouc America, it is not exceptional “

Trump said “Phouc you Obama, MAGA!”

Biden says “I miss the Carter Obama years”😉

The Obamas , according to their own darling child liberal news , said the Obamas like it a bit warmer. That was 76 to 77 degrees. In defense of the Obamas, If that is what they want their temperature at, who cares. As for me, I put in another load of wood and am at 70 degrees with in floor radiant heat, so it is quite warm in my house.

Yep. They need to get acclimated to about 120.

I think they should prepare for 60,000 degrees F.

Without influence we run 68 in the winter lighting off the insert with oak when needed and 76 in the summer with all of the latter provided Mother Nature in north Idaho.

We live in the frozen north, winter time our thermostat is set at 68 daytime, 60 nighttime.

Where we have air conditioning we set it at 76.

Sealed off two little drafts. Made a big diff.
Mucho bettero.

Electric in back room (while I fugg around on PC and watch YT w the cat)...........is much more comfy.
Maybe a tad cool, but it doesn't get worse.

Ever since I got my appendix out Ive been on the cool side.
More sensitive.

Set at 72 and it shuts off and on.

we've always run 65 daytime in winter here in pa and 60 at night. but i do that because i'm cheap. with new windows and doors i use less than 300 gallons of oil a winter for a 3 bed/2 bath house. if i go to someones house who has the heat set to 70 i feel like i am in a sauna.

I don't mind keeping it cool in the winter here in Minnysodapop, but the summers are so humid the air conditioner has to be running cool or I can't fuggin breathe.

It was 73 here today. My last electric bill was $68.

The main problem I have with these type things is, the ones making the laws and suggestions never live by their own rules. I'll bet these folks don't have to wear thick sweaters in their houses.

Right Tom.
I'm in a sweatshirt, thermostat set at 71F.

We were a few degrees above that today though the morning walk still warrants a decent jacket. No clue on the propane fills as my wife manages that.

Constant 70 in the winter. That’s where momma mac likes it.

Can't stand it much above 68 in the house during Winter.

It hit 23 here today. A couple campfire brethren and I spent an hour socializing at a rural McDonalds. Thanks to Gov. Stretchen Gretchen we were relegated to the parking lot, where for at least a brief moment, we'd fantasized about the ambiance of a raging dumpster fire.

70F in the day and down to 65F for bed time.

Lived thru that crap.

Will not do anything again.

They are crazy.

Well the dumbasses have them back now aye......

Lol, I'm glad Al and I were able to hold you back, I didn't want to spend the night in jail with you.............Again.......

Wife controls the T-stat at our house. I have to pick my battles, and that's not one of them.

I prefer a moderate 68 or so, she prefers around 80. So naturally we compromise, and keep it around 80.

JHC, she will keep it at 80 in the winter and 60 in the summer. At least I don't have to worry about her becoming one of those Greenies.

I will turn it down 5-10 degrees all year. But I don't want to be that beat up by the old lady. So, she determines it. Not Biden.

What? One of you guys didn't have a spare gas can and some matches?

What if we all drove 54mph on the interstate? Could we turn the heat up to like 70? Or if every house in the lower 48 was allowed only 1 tv? Could we go say, 71?

Holy frigg

As a test model

This should apply to govt housing first

Sleep better w it at 68.
The ol lady runs it at 71 at night w thick blankets
Once the kids mucked up the thermostat.
Woke up after a few hrs of actually good sleep and temp said 65.

I only wear shorts to bed. Cant have stuff on my shoulders.
And daytime am in short sleeve T and jeans, socks

Any more than that my skin crawls.

Heavy coats cause neck tension and headaches.
I gotta go light, even if it makes me freeze.

The ol lady can wear a thermal and sweater, in the house.
Wears gloves fall to spring outside.

Ridiculous. Bedroom warmest room of house.
I bought a comfy couch.
Orange kitty and I sleep out there

68 here. I do run a kerosene heater in the attached garage that benefits us some, I hang out here most days after work and on weekends. One thing that helps is we have a 5/8” insulation board on the outside of our home..downside is doors and windows are custom.

Ha, I have a good supply of juniper and live in an area where they don't shut us woodburners down for air quality days.

I hate wearing warm clothes indoors, long pants and long sleeved shirts or sweaters and scheidt are not my idea of house clothes. Pair of cotton athletic shorts and a t shirt are more than I want to wear. Growing up in a place where it's 70F outside on Christmas day will do that to a person.

Presently 73 degrees in the master bdrm farthest from the woodstove. 74 in the hallway on the thermostat. Burning one regular log every 3 hours or so. and I put a good size one with some knots one when I go to bed so there's coals for when the wife gets up.

Was even nice for a couple of weeks during the January thaw. Daytimes outside in the 50's some days. Let the morning fire die out, house would stay above 68 until late at night when the thermostat is set lower and the hear won't come on. I'm cheap, hate spending the money for electrons when I don't need to. I'd set a fire so my wife could start it in the morning to warm up the house before the thermostat kicked on again. Modern tech, programmable thermostats are the bomb. Burned 4-6 splits of wood a day then. I was lovin' it.

I've lived in places where there was ice on the inside of the windows sometimes in the winter, poor insulation and we were poor and didn't want to spend money on fuel or electricity.

Now I'm an old boomer and like my comfort..

I have no working furnace as such we use no thermostat to turn down
I take Great Pleasure in heating my home with wood that I scrounge of of construction sites to recycle and burn to heat my home spewing all of the deadly green house gases that I can create in Commyfornia to heat my home.
My Gas bill is right around $40 a month give or take $5. It has been in the High 20s here fore the past couple of weeks at night.
Screw the One World Order and the Green New Deal and Screw the Communists that are running this Country.

Fu-k those commie sack washers, it's 76 degrees in here right now, still using the non-compliant wood stove insert in the fireplace........almost forgot, the usfs burns millions of acres per year in controlled burns, sure glad they have their greta turdberg filters working there! hypocrisy, thy name in us/gov!

Dang, I pay more’n that for the way I live, the base rate is like $72.

I find liberals throw off a gotta heat if you keep sayin' Greta is a shill, Pelosi Doan know squat, an election was a fraud.
Keep yellin' that athe fireplace and the house stay near eighty....

In the winter heat is set at 67
In the summer AC is set to 68

It's good to know they like it warm. It should be plenty hot where they're going.

Bb

And hopefully very soon

I keep it about 75 in summer.


Good gawd, 68, my nose would be running, shivering.

Used to have this fat bitch ole gal at work would take a paper clip and run it through the locked cover to the T-stat and run it down to 68 or so. Wanted to kick her in the gunt. Fuggin sweathog hot flashin’ heifer.

Used to find myself a reason to take the company jeep and just leave for a couple hours.


I usually just go sit outside in 90-95 Tn summers shade tree with the dogs.

Wife and I run warm.

Winter: 65 in the house.
Summer: 68 in the house.

And I could GAF what any politician (or anyone else) has to say about it. We closed on this house and within 3 hours had central A/C being installed.

I'll set it on whatever makes me comfortable at the time.

That's why I work, so I can afford to be comfortable in my home.

Sodomy charges?

I dunno man, Tennessee in the summer sounds pretty hellish. I've never been, just pure speculation.

Same deal here, but run it at 63 all the time.

O'biden , Making America Mediocre Again - MAMA!

Memories of Jimmy Carter. I need to go turn the thermostat up.

In the Summer I like to be cool, so it stays on 70. In the Winter I like to be warm, so it stays on 70 then too. Fan runs 24/7 to keep the air circulating.

Spring and Fall, we open the windows and turn it off, except usually leave the fan running.

Winter 70 downstairs and 68 upstairs in the bedrooms. Summer 72 everywhere. We have geothermal so a degree or two one way or the other or screwing with it between day or night makes little difference. When we first moved in we used to have automatic timers to turn everything down when we were at work. I actually think our bills were higher bringing it back up to temperature than just leaving it alone.

If I never saw a day or room warmer than 68-70 degrees again I’d be one happy mofo.

But, my water bill is almost equal at around $65. Some Republicrat commissioner (that I voted for and allowed to put a sign in my yard) pushed through a "minimum usage" bill that made my water bill what it is now, instead of the $16-20 it was prior, based on my real usage. This all after I had installed all kinds of water saving strategies in my house.

Rinos on the local level are still Rinos. Watch them like a hawk. We immediately voted this old buzzard/basturd OUT.

I've got kind of an opposite story.

Used to have these 2 waify South American bitches who had the cubbie right outside my office climb up on their desks and stuff paper in the AC vents. Well, when the other skinny twits also picked up on that tactic, lo and behold, this blew the AC unit on top of the roof. Now, this is a 12 story building, mind you. I/We were on the 10th. The AC guys troubleshooting the problem were thorough, and found all the crap stuffed in the vents. Think about what that cost the company. The temp in that office was never below 75 prior.

My boss, the IT director, was livid when he found out the truth. I would have been, too. Stayed as far away from those 2 as I could after that. Didn't want to get hit with overspray.
They were both what most of the old farts here would consider hawt, so they managed to survive. Lol.

Possession of Geriatric Porn

Lol...we keep the house at about 64° all year ( even when it's 106° outside)...all provided by Mother ature with a little from you guys.

Okay! Now I see where I sit! Toby , and Al at Micky D’S ?

Oh! House set at 68 day time 64 night time.

My heat sources consists of the normal forced air furnace

which hasn't run all winter...but set at 66* if we go away overnight

Greer Mini Split heat pump system in the south sun room (110 power)

This starts up at sunset to 9-10 am set at 74*

Basement has my NG 'Pot Belly' 28K BTU that I light at dusk---till 9-10 am next morning

Natural heat flow comes up basement stairs and vents in floor above stove

The key is the house having a south face & lots of windows...the sun shines in Utah

Gas bill ? $91/month adjusted twice a year (includes my 1500 sq ft garage)

Power is $96/month also adjusted twice a year (equal payment plan ) garage too (same meter)

pic.......sun coming up looking towards the cold north west

I was told yesterday that the “Nest” thermostat, that I guess one can control from their phone via WiFi, can also be controlled by the gummint in an energy crisis.

Dunno if that’s actually true, but sounds right.

It can FEEL brutally cold here outside from time to time...20's with 90% humidity, but it rarely lasts more than a couple of days. We try never to turn the heat on, but good insolation only goes so far. Ask me about August.

65/60 in the winter and 75 in the summer. I don’t do well in the heat. Texas would probably kill me.

At the farm house, 63 degrees in winter. Takes about 400 gallons of propane to keep it there. When I come inside in winter anything more than 63 feels like a hot house.

No thermostat in the summer. Summer, open the windows at 9 pm, turn the window fan on, and it's back down to the low sixties inside by morning. I'm ok with that.

At the house in town? Whatever the redhead sets it on. I just take off about half my clothes and find a cool spot in the basement......

Wife sets thermostat hot and I open the window behind our bed and crank a fan. Seems to work for us so far. Probably adds something to the bill since the thermo for that heat pump is in our room.

Heck, I looked out the bathroom window for something and apparently there’s no lock. No big deal I’ve no idea if we even have keys for the house we bought 4 years ago and with glass sliders everywhere on all levels it wouldn’t matter. More important, the window was open 4” and must’ve been since we moved in or something. Never open those blinds myself.

This year it’s stayed over 0 so far. Fingers crossed the ice dams’ll break up so I can go back to trout fishing soon. Had to quit last week when the gorge froze up mostly. After the 24” of snow predicted that just started tonight might be a few weeks.

We had a few Keystoker stoves here which were nice. After a few too many trips coming home to find them out or nearly out I removed them so my family didn’t die from Carbon Monoxide. Glorious things, throw a 5 gal pail in and take out ash once a day, set thermo, done for the day and they throw heat better than any wood stove I’ve been around. Cringed removing them with 2 heat pumps and the 2 coal stoves the main heat leaving a bath and laundry space ingested if you don’t count the built in wall heaters from the 70’s when it was new. Added two split ductless for the two 1500 sq ft open areas Downstairs and started removing older electric baseboards. Thought electric would climb further if that’s possible. It jumped about $50/mo and no coal to mess with so didn’t notice it. When the electric bill looks like mine it’s a blip on the monthly statement unfortunately. Probably consume a small town worth here.

Coal stoves, at least the auto ones are a good way to go if coals available. $200/ load which lasted almost a season. Problem I had was my wife is 5’9” and 95 lbs. She struggled filling the hopper and emptying the ash or forgot. The only downside is if the hopper goes empty and fire doesn’t die it’ll let Carbon monoxide out through the hopper. I had detectors near them but a few to many close calls. If I was home more I’d have them still. Regret not throwing one in the upper garage though.

I run pretty warm. My thermostat stays put at 62* F year round. Windows are always opened slightly close up against the closed locks unless the temps drop below freezing and the wind picks up. Then I close the window, partially open the locks and open the windows against it giving me an 1/8" or so gap. A 20kt wind will force quite a bit of air through that small of a gap.


My up north house has a woodstove for primary and a Toyo that kicks in when the woodstove is unattended for long periods of time and a boiler with a simple baseboard loop to even things out.