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Posted on 08/14/2008 3:02:12 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes
"The City Council is poised to approve new legislation on Thursday that would bar stores from keeping their doors open when air-conditioners or central cooling systems are in use. Any store or restaurant in violation of the new rule will first be issued a written warning and charged fines for subsequent violations. The second time within an 18-month period that a business is found to be violating the law, a fine of $200 would be charged by the city for every open door. That fine would increase to $400 a door for any subsequent violations during the same period."
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Too bad we can't walk into government offices and fine them for waste!! i.e. SHUT THEM DOWN!!
Gee, isn’t the fine self inflicted (in the form of high energy costs) from the “wasters” themselves? Lets face it, the Liberals are Nazis at heart.
So the government is worried about wasted energy. Let’s start with the street lights I see burning all day long.
The AC in the government buildings must be turned off, too, since they can heat it all by themselves with hot air.
I say we shut down NASCAR and every other idiotic form of car racing. Think of the savings!
Do you one better cutout all school busing. Maybe the drop in summertime gas consumption was less school busing???
Outlaw air conditioning and only outlaws (and government offices) will have air conditioning.
Charlotte, NC did something very similar but with water...
They raised the rates after the revenue drop.
“Outlaw air conditioning and only outlaws (and government offices) will have air conditioning. “
I was raised down south and when I was little we didn’t have any air conditioning. I remember how bad it was even today. The old houses had 12’ ceilings and transoms at the tops of the doors for a reason.
Just another piece of liberal marxists legislation to kill capitolism and the free enterprise system.
Not sure if it’s still the case, but it wasn’t all that long ago that city office buildings in lower Manhattan (these are VERY large buildings) all had window units hanging on the outside.
I did. They are.
The Left cannot communicate without gross crudeness. I've never understood why the Left has a reputation for intelligence, eloquence and nuance.
Most folks use A/C to REDUCE hot air...
Excellent.
Why should these fools be allowed to waste energy.
Now to mandate internal temps for residences.
If an activity is deemed harmful to the public good and general welfare, then why should it not be under the purview of government.
Great idea! Form’m up, march’m out.
End all this nonsense of Mommy driving them to & from school everyday.
The Block Mothers can take turns as drill sergeant. The walking will do them ALL a world of good.
Cut down on time, money & energy wasted on treadmills, too.
I have a GREAT idea!
Instead of the government worrying about people wasting all of the energy the government gives them, why don't we install meters, and SELL it to them? Maybe even use a step-structure, so the more the use, the more each additional unit costs!
That way, if they use more, they have to pay more; and when the bill gets too high, they'll automatically cut back!
I know that is a radical idea, but it just might be crazy enough to work!
The city council is overstepping its authority. It has no authority to regulate energy usage.
I saw plenty of that on offices last summer when I was in Cleveland, among other places.
Don’t know if you were being facetious, but I installed a system in a major NYC department store for just that reason. Once the store reached a certain demand, the cost /KWhr increased. With this system, as demand neared the benchmark, it would shed load by cutting different AC units around the store according to pre-programmed criteria. For example, stock areas would be cut off first, then perhaps other peripheral areas, then offices and so on.
I need one or two to follow me around all day to make sure I don't do anything unhealthy to myself or to others, brush my teeth and get plenty of sleep.
The comments show how many people are sold on the idea of Global Warming.
Time to tear up the city streets and return to dirt paths, so the sun’s heat isn’t reflect back, futher heating up the planet.
Only facetious in that I had the government giving them the government's power, since they act like it (along with our earnings, investments, property, and everything else) is theirs.
IOW, we already have the solution; you're a part of it; and none of it is based on fines.
A lot of our electric co-op's commercial customers have load-shedding contracts & equipment, and have for years.
Coming soon to your neighborhood...the thermostat police.
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