Keep your frickin' meat-hooks off my thermostat!
I follow all of their rules. I've quadrupled insulated the attic to no avail; I changed all the light bulbs. As I replace appliances, I buy the most energy-efficient ones; I keep the A/C set at their recommended level; and I don't run any major appliances during the taboo hours between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Geeze. What more do they want from me and everybody else who's doing the same thing?
I doubt that they considered for a moment that when they put the screws to a household's power that a person in said household might be ill; might not be able to tolerate having his power mucked around with; might not have a backup generator to run his iron lung or respirator or oxygen pump.
Keep your frickin' mitts of my thermostat!
Instead of giving the home owners more grief, they should start with businesses and the massive high-rise buildings that gobble more energy than all the homes combined.
Employees sit around shivering in the summer, because the A/C is turned too low, and broiling in the winter, because the heat is set too high.
It's a lousy, unhealthful way to live, and California isn't the only state that's culpable. They all do it; overheat and overcool.
Want to save energy, guys? Mandate that every public and privately owned building in the state must turn off ALL it's lights at night except for roof beacons and a few low-wattage, ground floor security lights. Then put the saved electricity in a "lockbox" for future use.
More maddening, the bastards are forcing me to do something I'm not ready to do...spend $8K or so on a bigger unit for the upstairs before they institute their invasive, malevolent, radio wave wizardry, because the one we have is too small to cool the upper floor in our searing summers.
Bastards! Keep your frickin' hands off my thermostat!
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