Electricity is just like every other commodity; there's a limit to it. Not just because it raises your bill, but to keep it available to everybody. 78 degrees is fine. Feels cool when you come inside from the heat outside.
Who cares where the recs come from. I've heard them all my life. We'd get an earful from Mom if somebody left a light on.
Candy
Originally posted by: David Miller
Are you blind? -- Once again for blind Mark -- these specific requests to adjust thermostats are officially issued and recommended by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and the Public Utility Commission of Texas rather than being direct executive orders from the Governor.
And you said that Mamdami "TOLD" New Yorkers to raise their thermostats to 77, when it was actually a recommendation.
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Originally posted by: O2bnVegas
Electricity is just like every other commodity; there's a limit to it. Not just because it raises your bill, but to keep it available to everybody. 78 degrees is fine. Feels cool when you come inside from the heat outside.
Who cares where the recs come from. I've heard them all my life. We'd get an earful from Mom if somebody left a light on.
Candy
But did you know...while the rest of the US has an integrated power grid, and that includes Canada, Texas has an "independent" power grid and can't buy power from anywhere else if they have overloads and shortages? Remember a few winters ago when all those Texas folks got power bills for ten grand?
So it's a lot more critical that sweaty Texans keep it at 78 than sweaty New Yorkers. If they turn up the AC in NYC, the power bill grows; in Texas, the lights go out. And dang, it's hard to shoot Messkins in the dark!
Sweaty reporters armed with an infrared thermometer tested 20 spots within City Hall and other municipal offices and buildings they were able to access — and all but five of them were below 78 degrees.
But by 4:30 p.m., temperatures had plummeted even more in the mayor’s office building, with the air in one room testing at a sweater weather-worthy 54 degrees.
The Rotunda dropped to 64 degrees. One of the lowest readings — 62 degrees — came near the first-floor mayor’s press office at 1:30 p.m., as Mamdani’s communication minions and other staffers congregated on their side of the building.
Originally posted by: tom
Sweaty reporters armed with an infrared thermometer tested 20 spots within City Hall and other municipal offices and buildings they were able to access — and all but five of them were below 78 degrees.
But by 4:30 p.m., temperatures had plummeted even more in the mayor’s office building, with the air in one room testing at a sweater weather-worthy 54 degrees.
The Rotunda dropped to 64 degrees. One of the lowest readings — 62 degrees — came near the first-floor mayor’s press office at 1:30 p.m., as Mamdani’s communication minions and other staffers congregated on their side of the building.
The people in those buildings are working. Have you ever worked, stupid Tom?
No A/C system in the world will cool a room to 54 degrees, by the way. So we know that your whole fantasy post is a lie.
Originally posted by: O2bnVegas
Electricity is just like every other commodity; there's a limit to it. Not just because it raises your bill, but to keep it available to everybody. 78 degrees is fine. Feels cool when you come inside from the heat outside.
Who cares where the recs come from. I've heard them all my life. We'd get an earful from Mom if somebody left a light on.
Candy
My dad would "fine" me and reduce my allowance if I left my light on when leaving my room. I learned quickly after that.
Originally posted by: LiveFreeNW
My dad would "fine" me and reduce my allowance if I left my light on when leaving my room. I learned quickly after that.
I got in trouble once with that. My dad raised a big stink about my leaving a desk lamp on while we ate dinner. It was a 40 watt bulb, and I left it on for an hour. I was feeling kind of resentful that day--I was usually pretty mellow--and I decided to calculate how much money I had cost the family based on $ per kwh. That light consumed 0.04 kwh while I left it on. I looked at the last electric bill: we paid 2.5 cents per kwh. So later that evening, I handed my dad a penny, and deadpanned, "Keep the change." He looked dumbfounded, then he realized what I was talking about, and he cracked up. You see, he was an electrician, and I was a really mathy little kid, so he got a kick out of my realizing that I had just wasted one-tenth of a cent.
So I bet your dad overcharged you :)
