Federal energy program suggests keeping
thermostat set at 78 degrees —
82 while you sleep
Fox 5 News,
by
Colleen Killingsworth
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
8/21/2019 5:22:48 AM
To keep your home cool with central air conditioning while also optimizing energy efficiency (and therefore cost), keep the temperature at 78 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
The suggestion comes from Energy Star, a federal program managed jointly by the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency that provides information to consumers about energy efficiency practices that not only save consumers money, but also improve air quality and protect the environment. With record-breaking heat waves becoming the norm, finding ways to beat the heat without busting your budget might seem mystifying, which is why Energy Star provided consumers with a set of energy-saving recommendations on how to best
Reply 1 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/21/2019 5:34:24 AM (No. 157726)
1. You can bet their homes don't follow this rule. Nor their offices.
2. The heat waves are record-breaking, only because they've been doctoring the historical record.
3. Where are THEY from? The tropics? Are there illegal aliens running the EPA?
4. FU EPA!! A bunch of lying swamp critters busy lining their pockets with the money that was actually targeted to improving infrastructure.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Trigger2 8/21/2019 5:59:41 AM (No. 157742)
Does the rule exempt the elites? That's what I want to know since they spew airplane, limo, and yacht fumes and carbon everywhere they go.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
varkdriver 8/21/2019 6:14:11 AM (No. 157759)
Morons. I've got a bunch of morons on my team. Recently replaced an old thermostat in the house, and the instruction booklet showing how to set the temps settings for different times of the day showed those exact numbers. Try running those settings by Mrs. Varkdriver. Not gonna go over real well!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
worried 8/21/2019 6:27:03 AM (No. 157775)
Ever go to a doctor's office? Freeze your butt off in the waiting room. Same goes for stores, especially in malls. Could almost skate in the reflecting pools. Let them change their settings first.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
HPmatt 8/21/2019 6:28:58 AM (No. 157781)
.....’With record-breaking heat waves becoming the norm, ....’
When I went to public school in Houston in summer school we did not have a/c......they taught us this season was called ‘Summer’......good grief Charlie Brown, what have all the ‘educated’ people been taught????
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lakerman1 8/21/2019 6:44:34 AM (No. 157802)
I recall Putin commenting on 'global warming.' "If the temperature in Russia goes up on degree, that would not be a bad thing."
I remember Jimmy Carter's failed presidency, where he sat around in a sweater, and looked pitiful. He did it back then for the sake of the fake oil shortage.
We don't need Jimmy.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
1976Ag 8/21/2019 7:40:29 AM (No. 157854)
They can say that but I want to sleep at night. If we set our temp to those values my wife is going to wake me up every thirty minutes asking me if I'm hot. No one that lives south of OKC can do this without sweating all night. Houston would not even be what it is without A/C.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mobyclik 8/21/2019 7:59:59 AM (No. 157870)
Sure, and hire hundreds of thousands of gooberment jack-booted thugs to kick in doors at 4 a.m. to check thermostats. Yep, that's the ticket. (They could start kicking in LiberalWorld.)
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rama41 8/21/2019 8:18:30 AM (No. 157887)
One reason DC was chosen as the national capital was that Washington in the summer was a fetid swamp. The hope was that in the hot summer the government would shut down. Let's revive that hope by outlawing air conditioning in EPA headquarters and the Department of Energy.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ho72 8/21/2019 8:22:36 AM (No. 157892)
FTA: While you are away from the house during the day, you should keep the thermostat set to 85 degrees or higher.
Idiocy. If you do this in areas where the temps routinely soar during the day and may not get below 80 at night, your A/C will run non-stop for hours trying to recover to your at-home temp set point. So how much energy is really being saved?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Archtheduke 8/21/2019 8:32:44 AM (No. 157910)
Incompetency abounds
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jacksin5 8/21/2019 8:34:22 AM (No. 157913)
And this is why I refuse to buy a thermostat that syncs with the Internet. I don't need the Climate Police monitoring my A/C unit.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
snakeoil 8/21/2019 8:36:23 AM (No. 157915)
My power company keeps asking me to buy a "smart" thermostat. Refuse to. If the dims take over they'll be able to control the temperature in my house. Back when Jammy Carter was POTUS he gave his famous cardigan sweater speech asking us to set the thermostat to 60 something degrees and to wear a sweater like his in the winter. Turned it up as high as it would go and spent the winter naked as a jaybird.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/21/2019 8:50:13 AM (No. 157929)
Research has proven conclusively that sleep is aided by reducing body temperature several degrees. It's hard to reduce body temp when normal metabolism is going on without reducing ambient air temperature to around 72 degrees. If you're going to "splurge" on your electricity usage, make sure it's during your sleep.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rather Read 8/21/2019 8:55:13 AM (No. 157939)
I grew up in Kentucky with no air conditioning. Yes, it was hot, sometimes unbearably so. Nights were really bad and I would wake up to sweat soaked sheets. So when I got air conditioning, it was a God send. I don't like it too cold, so I set it on 77 and leave it there. That works for me and I am quite comfortable, especially when the outside temperature is 97 like it has been the last few days. Sleep at 82? Been there, did that for far too long. No thank you EPA, you've ruined enough appliances. Stay away from the thermostat.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Pearson365 8/21/2019 9:20:40 AM (No. 157979)
Is this madness worth a $4.3 trilllion per year federal budget? With $1.1 trillion of this budget based on borrowing still more money because we are only collecting $3.2 trillion in annual taxes to pay for these program and bureaucrats?
I expected Energy Star press releases from a Hillary government, not one from a President who promised to start reducing the $22 trillion national deficit. When Trump runs for re-election in 2020, he will have added almost $4 trillion to our Treasury’s debt obligations, which is no different than Obama’s first term. Will Trump boast the 82 degrees as another of his wins?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 8/21/2019 9:21:01 AM (No. 157981)
Let all the Dept. of Energy and EPA offices operate at these temperatures
for three years to test the idea.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Kate318 8/21/2019 9:28:48 AM (No. 157996)
I ran this piece of news past some of my clients yesterday, including liberal ones. They all thought it was nonsense and flatly refused to comply.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 8/21/2019 11:02:42 AM (No. 158138)
Pound sand.
I keep mine at 75F in summer, 72F in winter. MY house, MY gas bill and electric bill, go straight to Hades, you federal weenies.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/21/2019 11:58:47 AM (No. 158220)
Great idea if you want your fur-coated pets to suffer, your computers to fry and your chocolate bars to turn to liquid in the wrapper. Everybody is different though, there is the other extreme where people set their AC down to 65 and sleep with blankets on. I was told that doctors offices and hospitals keep the temperature cold so the diseases that patients bring in can not multiply as fast. The electric companies "help" us out by comparing our power usage to our "more efficient neighbors" so we don't need the government to get in on the act as well. The government already had us on a path to driving cars that were not much sturdier than a cardboard box with a rubber band and now they are allowing the manufacture of 600hp cars again. Get out of our lives!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Videodrone 8/21/2019 12:16:10 PM (No. 158236)
Yet "Doktor Sayjay Guppy" tells me that to sleep better the temp should be in the 60's...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 8/21/2019 2:01:18 PM (No. 158344)
I used to visit Florida relatives without AC in the summer. You couldn't sleep it was so hot. No thanks. My thermostat is in the low 70s.
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This has caused a lot of conversation. A person in DC sitting in an air conditioned office tells the rest of US what to do while getting paid to do so. Gotta love it. At 82 degrees in the humid south, why not just sleep outside and be done. It's called "air conditioning" for a reason.
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Seriously? Words cannot express how angry this makes me. What business is it of the federal government where I set my thermostat?