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    Stupid 78 Degrees is the Lowest You Should Set Your A/C According to Government

    By Rob Fox - Rare.us




    Keep your laws suggestions off my hot body, government! According to Energy Star, a federal program from the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency, in order to help both the environment and the energy grid from being overburdened the coolest you should be keeping your home this summer is 78 degrees (26C). That’s just when you’re home. And awake.

    Energy Star says that people should have their air conditioning set at 85 degrees (29.4C) when they aren’t home (sorry dogs!) and 82 degrees (28C) when they’re sleeping. That’s an interesting idea, government pencil pushers, but there’s a logical fallacy with your plan. I can’t physically fall sleep in an 82-degree house because I didn’t grow up sleeping outside in Arizona. Therefore, since I’ll be wide awake, I’ll have to keep the A/C at 78 degrees. Then I’ll have to call in sick to work because I didn’t get any sleep at work and keep my home at 78 degrees even longer. Before you know it the ozone is gone, our children are being lit on fire by the sun, and it’s definitely all your fault not mine.



    Policing the temperature people keep their homes at seems like a secondary concern. If the government really wants to make an impact they should tell every office building in America not to dial their thermostat down to 60 degrees every single day from April to October. There hasn’t been a reasonably climate-controlled office in the United States during the summer in roughly 40 years. My home being set to 73 or 74 — because that’s a reasonable temperature — isn’t doing one one-millionth of the climate and energy damage all the forty story igloos in Dallas are doing.

    If you would like to follow the government’s recommendation and turn your home into a yurt on a steppe in Mongolia then, by all means, feel free to do so, but personally I feel more inclined to ask every business in America to do us all a favor and cease attempting to give us hypothermia during the summer months before I’m forced to bake in my juices until I eventually fall asleep out of frustrated exhaustion every night at 3:00 a.m.

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    We keep our thermostat set at 75° when we're home and at 78° at night or when we aren't home. There's no way I am going to set the temp to 78° during the day when it's hot as fuck outside. I want to be comfortable, not hot inside my own home.

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    I'm 72 degrees year round with a ceiling fan set on medium over top of me as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    I'm 72 degrees year round with a ceiling fan set on medium over top of me as well.
    I'd totally have the ceiling fan on in the bedroom but the wife doesn't like it on, so

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    I'd totally have the ceiling fan on in the bedroom but the wife doesn't like it on, so
    Luckily it's directly over me and not her..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    Luckily it's directly over me and not her..
    Plus I'd have the thermostat set to 74° or maybe even 73° sometimes, but then when it's set that low, the kid and the wife are putting on sweatshirts FFS. I think the kid is mentally defective anyway, in the middle of summer she's wearing long sleeves and long pants, sweatshirts and the like, but then in the winter when it's 10° I'll beat her home in the afternoon and she's wearing a windbreaker and a t-shirt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Plus I'd have the thermostat set to 74° or maybe even 73° sometimes, but then when it's set that low, the kid and the wife are putting on sweatshirts FFS. I think the kid is mentally defective anyway, in the middle of summer she's wearing long sleeves and long pants, sweatshirts and the like, but then in the winter when it's 10° I'll beat her home in the afternoon and she's wearing a windbreaker and a t-shirt.
    Dude, my 15 year old will wear a sweatshirt in the middle of this oppressive heat.. It may just be a thing these days...?

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    Mine is at 80 during the day ( summer) starting at 17:00, it ramps down to 76 by 20:00. My home and roof are shaded, perhaps 75%. Pretty good insulation too. 80 is comfy to me in side, as long as I'm not working on anything. My studio stays at 78 in summer. Its 100% shaded.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    Dude, my 15 year old will wear a sweatshirt in the middle of this oppressive heat.. It may just be a thing these days...?
    I guess...it seems like whenever I'm out, mostly on the weekends, it will be blazing sun and in the upper 90's to 100° and there will be these kids out wearing black sweatshirts, and sometimes even hoodies with the hood up....like WTF?

    Quote Originally Posted by KevinD View Post
    Mine is at 80 during the day ( summer) starting at 17:00, it ramps down to 76 by 20:00. My home and roof are shaded, perhaps 75%. Pretty good insulation too. 80 is comfy to me in side, as long as I'm not working on anything. My studio stays at 78 in summer. Its 100% shaded.
    That's the problem with my house, I get the full force of the sun all day, from sunrise until about 6 PM in the summer before the sun finally gets blocked a bit by trees. So the indoor temp in my house goes up FAST in the morning as soon as the sun gets some altitude.

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    I keep my upstairs at 74 all the time and downstairs the same when I'm not there. When we get home from work it goes down to 70 downstairs, we like it cold when we sleep.

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    This is weird. All of you guys live in hotter climates than me yet you keep your homes way hotter.

    Me - 18C at night and 21/22C during the day.

    That's 65F at night and 71F max during the day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post
    This is weird. All of you guys live in hotter climates than me yet you keep your homes way hotter.

    Me - 18C at night and 21/22C during the day.

    That's 65F at night and 71F max during the day.
    In the winter the thermostat is set to 72° when we're home and set to 63° at night or when no one's home.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    In the winter the thermostat is set to 72° when we're home and set to 63° at night or when no one's home.
    That's about my range. I read somewhere if you want to keep bills down don't vary the range too greatly between night and day. My range is typically 3 or 4 degrees.

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