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Posted on 07/12/2010 1:25:38 PM PDT by Marcus
Proving that there is no folly fallacious enough that it can't be written down, both in a book and in an oped in the Washington Post, Stan Cox, an agricultural scientist, has proposed to ban or greatly restrict air conditioning.
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Yes,
And we need to go back to horses, Pony Express, Stage Coaches so that the “Ice Man” business can boom again! Not to mention the buggy whip industry. With emissions control equipment on all of the horses asses too of course! (Beginning with him.)
I’m hoping the industry will come out with an incandescent bulb that uses a lot less power so that Congress will reverse the ban.
As a fellow Arizona resident, “AMEN!”
We need to start with outlawing the AC in DC first...As stated by New York Times columnist Russell Baker (’78) pre Air Conditioned Congress was forced to adjourn to avoid Washington’s torturous summers, and “the nation enjoyed a respite from the promulgation of more laws, the depredations of lobbyists, the hatching of new schemes for Federal expansion and, of course, the cost of maintaining a government running at full blast”...Sounds like a good start to me....
Great...that’ll put The Deep South right back into 1930’s....real quick...
>> but AC is a luxury, not a necessity.
I guess you could say the same thing for heat and light bulbs. /s
Maybe an LED version, but incandescents are what they are. You can’t change the laws of physics..........
+1. Let them lead by example.
Try it at your house first, Stan, and let us know how MRS. Cox likes it. If she signs off on it I will think about it. But not too hard.
So...because it wasn’t around in the 40’s for people to use, therefore it’s not a necessity?
Stupid logic.
Regardless, as someone else posted...I pay for it out of my pocket. So the point is rather mute on necessity or not.
We in the Deep South will give up household air conditioning when New England liberals outlaw household heating.
Does anyone realize how much smoke and greenhouse gas is produced by northern home furnaces powered by coal, oil and gas? Even wood burning furnaces and fireplaces increase the carbon footprint and contribute to deforestation.
Well into the Seventies, old line New Yorkers were proud of not having any air conditioning in their apartments. In reality, the only way they could stand it was to go to the beach or the mountains in the summer. The old movie, THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH, gives a good portrait of NYC in pre-air conditioning days.
You know how different eras get their names much later in time (like the Bronze Age, etc.)? In hundreds of years, the 20th century will be labeled something akin to The Freon Age. Bank on it.
And those people need to be sent to either A) another country, already living under tyranny or B) an island with our current stock of government officials. They can all live happily ever after and leave us the hell alone.
You have a good sense of priority.
All that health, it is so luxurious...
Oooh, no fair handing out favors.
Irony:
The article comes up with an ad for a sale on home AC at Sears...
Must mean he wants people to die quicker. Memphis has had at least 3 heat related deaths in the past month. Mostly old people who can’t afford high electric bills.
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