I knew it: Liberals beginning to target your air conditioning

[bigcats]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

You must be a walking fungus and mildew factory.

Yep, me and all the vast, vast majority of people who have ever lived who haven't owned a clothes dryer.

[malamute]

Originally Posted by betamanlet

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I'm not at all liberal - but a tax on airconditioning would be about the only sensible tax I can think of.

People lived for many centuries without air conditioning and it's a huge waste. I hate refrigerated air conditioning which means you have to wear sweaters in July.

Air conditioning is what's causing the childhood obesity because kids today are so afraid they might sweat a little if they step outdoors that they sit inside all summer.

You can survive anywhere easily with just a fan or shade and the use of cotton clothes. People certainly have survived a little warmth for all those years before the last few years with air conditioning.

[Bluefly]

Do you all realize that air conditioning has always been a major environmental problem? Just because you just heard about it doesn't make it "new". Between the freon and vast energy waste forcing the burning of coal and other energy for electricity, airt conditioning is one of our most toxic modern conveniences - and has been since it was invented.

[Oerdin]

Originally Posted by KevK

I thought the liberals wanted to take your guns. Then it was your SUV. Now you say they want your air conditioner too? I guess the liberals will need to use the SUV to haul off your air conditioner and your guns.

Yeah, their delusions of persecution are funny, aren't they?

[Nomander]

Originally Posted by SLCPUNK

So did they come for anybodies AC yet? I'm so scared...

Read about smart meter technology, specifically its implementation in California and the issue around air conditioning and state control.

Yes, they have come for them in some places. Obviously not at the level you are suggestion, more so of the means to control your ability while using them. Before that, they were charging you for using over what they thought you should be.

There are ways to get your way other than applying direct force and these fascists are using all the tools they can to do so.

[Nomander]

Originally Posted by malamute

I'm not at all liberal - but a tax on airconditioning would be about the only sensible tax I can think of.

People lived for many centuries without air conditioning and it's a huge waste. I hate refrigerated air conditioning which means you have to wear sweaters in July.

Air conditioning is what's causing the childhood obesity because kids today are so afraid they might sweat a little if they step outdoors that they sit inside all summer.

You can survive anywhere easily with just a fan or shade and the use of cotton clothes. People certainly have survived a little warmth for all those years before the last few years with air conditioning.

why a tax? What sensible reason can you give to support such? Environment? That requires evidence to support that position, one that has been failing at making its case. Opinion? When did we start regulating individual liberties based on mob opinion?

[mimimomx3]

I would gladly give up my AC if Congress gave up theirs and went home. Hey, we can close 75% of DC federal agencies and save all those greenhouse gasses! Great idea!!!


In 1978, 50 years after air conditioning was installed in Congress, New York Times columnist Russell Baker noted that, pre-A.C., 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."