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Posted: 1/22/2022 2:52:02 PM EDT
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Years ago I worked at a place that had lock boxes over the Tstats. Heat was 65, AC was 80.
HVAC unit was not locked. $15 Tstat later and life was good 
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Posted: 1/22/2022 2:59:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: He punished Americans instead of Opec. Should have made them an offer they couldn't refuse. There were also ships stacked up off the ports full of oil so that was wierd. For decades it was the cry of energy independence. Once we achieved it, the cry became something else. Rinse & repeat. |
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Posted: 1/22/2022 3:17:16 PM EDT
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You could jimmy a pair of scissors in the vent slots of those thermostat lock boxes to tweak the temp.
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Posted: 1/22/2022 4:09:10 PM EDT
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This 1979 sign is still posted at University of Connecticut. Emergency temperature restrictions my a$$
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Posted: 1/22/2022 4:20:27 PM EDT
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Since Nov. 1963
LBJ Carter Clinton Obama Biden Enough said ... 
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Posted: 1/22/2022 4:35:32 PM EDT
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Quoted: I was over Facilities Engineering at a large DOD R&D facility during the great energy crisis of 1979. President Carter dictated that thermostats in all public buildings be set at no higher than 65 degrees in the winter and no lower than 78 degrees in the summer. And potable hot water heaters were to be set no hotter than 105 degrees. Link to archived news article It created chaos and lots of complaints. We had to put lock boxes on every thermostat, and I had a key. One lady made me a particularly "interesting" offer if I would lower her office's thermostat one summer. What she said was, "I just want to know who in the h__l I have to f__k in order to get the thermostat turned down." I said, "Well, I have a key . . . " I tweaked her thermostat down a little, but I didn't take her up on her offer. In hind-sight, I probably should have.  What a dumbass. |
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Posted: 1/22/2022 4:46:18 PM EDT
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Oh yeah, how could I forgot that asshole. I was in high school, and I can still remember his "fireside chat" wearing his sweater and preaching about turning down the thermostats. They did that at school and we had to wear our jackets in some classrooms and I can still remember how cold my hands were. Fuck him for so many reasons and this is just one of them.
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Posted: 1/22/2022 9:06:46 PM EDT
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Never trust a guy with teeth like that.
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Posted: 1/22/2022 9:35:54 PM EDT
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Quoted: And potable hot water heaters were to be set no hotter than 105 degrees. Legionnaires Disease |
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Posted: 1/22/2022 9:36:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember the resulting lockboxes on thermostats that resulted in that assfuck's policies. In high school, then college, then at work. Took years for those boxes to disappear. Not that long ago I worked at a vocational school that had lockboxes on the thermostats. Over time the ones in the tech classrooms all got ripped off the wall and then placed back on so they looked like they were still hard mounted. None of the management ever checked. |
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Posted: 1/22/2022 9:43:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Legionnaires Disease Most people get sick from leaks into the HVAC system on systems that use water. |
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Posted: 1/23/2022 2:35:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It'll be back but only because it's for your own good comrade. Fpni For the environment |
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Posted: 1/23/2022 3:05:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yikes, 78 degrees is hot in the summer. In a humid climate, it's even nastier. I agree, one of the wetter democrat dreams is the power to control everyone's thermostats nationwide from an office in DC. They would cream their shorts over the ability to force everyone to endure 80 during the day and 88 at night. Of course, their thermostats would be set to far more comfortable temperatures. Because some animals are more equal than others. Yep, but the commie mind is severely damaged. Last week there was a fire in the Bronx that killed 17 people. A space heater started it, gentlemen who's apartment the fire started in had MANY space heaters running because the required 68deg was too cold for him. There is talk by city councilman to raise the minimum temp to keep these people warm. Ridiculous What happened to saving the environment ? Fucking Commies! |
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Posted: 1/23/2022 3:55:02 AM EDT
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Carter had psychos working at the DOE. Reagan fired tons of them.
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Posted: 1/23/2022 3:58:49 AM EDT
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78 is exactly where I like it year around. I am always cold AF. I have a space heater in my office that runs constantly.
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Posted: 1/23/2022 4:04:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: On most DOD installations users can't adjust anything now. One central controller does it all. The thermostats on the wall in my office are a temp sensor and have a slider on the side labeled warm/cool. They actually do nothing at all. They actually do something; but it only allows you to adjust an offset from the remotely controlled set point. All you have to do is trick the thermistor into thinking it is hotter than it actually is. Place a PC or some other heat producing device under the thermostat.
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Posted: 1/23/2022 4:09:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Carter administration was also working to reduce natural gas use and encourage the use of coal. My father traveled to Washington trying to permit a project at one of the worlds largest polymer plants to reduce natural gas use by firing cracking furnaces with waste gas that was being flared instead of natural gas. The EPA wouldn't allow a new project that burned gas, so the waste gas was burned in the flare and the furnaces continued to burn natural gas as they had all along Dad was disgusted that the Carter EPA had virtually no competent employees. The group the plan was presented to didn't know what a BTU was. When he eventually ran across someone at the EPA who was almost marginally competent, all that guy wanted to talk about was how he could get a job with an oil company and leave the EPA. This begs the question, who was being paid? It was probably his Grand Cyclops KKK buddy from West Virginia in the Senate. |
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Posted: 1/23/2022 4:18:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: He punished Americans instead of Opec. Should have made them an offer they couldn't refuse. There were also ships stacked up off the ports full of oil so that was wierd. His brother Billy was running around with the Opec Sheiks at the time… |
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Posted: 1/23/2022 4:52:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 78 is exactly where I like it year around. I am always cold AF. I have a space heater in my office that runs constantly. @foxxnhound For your own sake I hope you buy some wool thermals and socks. |
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Posted: 1/23/2022 5:19:43 AM EDT
[#20]
I don't recall all that but do remember the wage concessions in place because of him at my first major job in 1979.
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Posted: 1/23/2022 5:44:50 AM EDT
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That and 55 mph highway speed limits and speedometers on new vehicles topped out at 80 mph.
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Posted: 1/23/2022 6:57:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: AND...don't forget the national 55 MPH speed limit! That did huge economic damage. Big rigs had to be retrofitted with bigger engines that used more gas since they lost the momentum to maintain speed up hills. Typical unintended consequences of Liberal mandates! On the otherhand, it was a real revenue raiser in the form of speeding tickets. Liberals never think things through. Feels. And Carter is a POS. But FBO and Brandon are worse. |
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Posted: 1/23/2022 7:11:42 AM EDT
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Governments answer to everything is make the people suffer, it's for their own good.
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Posted: 1/23/2022 7:17:43 AM EDT
[#24]
 Keep in mind that programmable thermostats weren't ubiquitous yet.
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Posted: 1/23/2022 7:28:39 AM EDT
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Put a light directly on the thermostat in the summer for ac
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Posted: 1/23/2022 7:50:03 AM EDT
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My wife had a little electric heater under her desk and had to wear lightweight gloves to type. That was the year she became a conservative.
Fun fact- her office building burned down due to the crazy mandate. There was a print shop in the building (a small 8 person office) and the crew came in and adjuster all the thermostats, including the baseboard heaters in the print shop. The printer kept those off due to dust and scraps of paper. At 3 am one of the baseboards caught fire and away went the whole building. Just one of those unexpected costs of saving energy. |
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Posted: 1/23/2022 8:23:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That sweater wearing peanut farmer was never happier than the day Obama was elected. Now he’s even happier that Pedo Joe is in office. For different reasons. Lol. |
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Posted: 1/23/2022 8:38:45 AM EDT
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"We have to tighten our belt."
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Posted: 1/23/2022 9:30:46 AM EDT
[#29]
The 55mph speed limit wasn't Carter, it was Nixon.
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Posted: 1/23/2022 10:41:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Public in this case means owned by the federal government. Most such buildings are under the control of the executive branch, and as head of the executive branch the president can in fact make such rules for those buildings. Stupid, but not unconstitutional. Quote HistoryQuoted: Public in this case means owned by the federal government. Most such buildings are under the control of the executive branch, and as head of the executive branch the president can in fact make such rules for those buildings. Stupid, but not unconstitutional. Wrong! From my link in the OP: The Energy Department said that the temperature restrictions would apply to about five million buildings, which use for heating and cooling about one-quarter of all the energy consumed in the United States. Included will be offices, retail stores, factories, restaurants, theaters, markets, churches and warehouses. But rooms containing machinery — computers, for instance — that by manufacturers warranty must be kept at specified temperatures, are exempt. The same is true of rooms housing plants or animals that require given temperatures. Excluded from the ruling are homes, hotel and motel rooms, elementary schools (but no other schools), hospitals and doctors offices, nursery schools and day-care centers, and other facilities related to health care. |
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Posted: 1/23/2022 10:46:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Pro tip, the thermostat measures the temperature where it is, not the temperature in the whole room or office... So, if you find a way to warn the thermostat up, you can keep the rest of the office nice and cool... just sayin. Yeah. We had some engineers and scientists (remember that they were doing research in labs scattered all over a giant facility) bleed liquid nitrogen into the thermostat guard to bring on the heat. Folks can be pretty innovative when something affects them personally. |
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Posted: 1/23/2022 10:50:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah. We had some engineers and scientists (remember that they were doing research in labs scattered all over a giant facility) bleed liquid nitrogen into the thermostat guard to bring on the heat. Folks can be pretty innovative when something affects them personally. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Pro tip, the thermostat measures the temperature where it is, not the temperature in the whole room or office... So, if you find a way to warn the thermostat up, you can keep the rest of the office nice and cool... just sayin. Yeah. We had some engineers and scientists (remember that they were doing research in labs scattered all over a giant facility) bleed liquid nitrogen into the thermostat guard to bring on the heat. Folks can be pretty innovative when something affects them personally. in you want the AC to run longer you just put cheap ass heated blanker over the thermostat cover. |
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Posted: 1/23/2022 10:51:21 AM EDT
[#33]
Also, if we are so concerned with pollution and shit, why isn't there another 55mph max in the intrastate again?
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Posted: 1/23/2022 11:04:23 AM EDT
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I got a speeding ticket on the interstate right after the speed limit on the interstate in rural areas changed from 55 to 65. It was not posted yet, judge threw it out in the state of LA saying it wasn't worth enforcing. Have a good day.
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Posted: 1/23/2022 4:19:18 PM EDT
[#35]
I work with a bunch of women who wear no socks and open toes when it’s cold, and they constantly complain that it is cold…so 68 F would be nice instead of sweating all day because they do not dress appropriately.
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Posted: 1/23/2022 4:44:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: On most DOD installations users can't adjust anything now. One central controller does it all. The thermostats on the wall in my office are a temp sensor and have a slider on the side labeled warm/cool. They actually do nothing at all. I’m municipal.gov and the one in my office is the same way |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 2:06:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I’m municipal.gov and the one in my office is the same way Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: On most DOD installations users can't adjust anything now. One central controller does it all. The thermostats on the wall in my office are a temp sensor and have a slider on the side labeled warm/cool. They actually do nothing at all. I’m municipal.gov and the one in my office is the same way ya'll can't plug in one of those AC units on wheels? |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 7:13:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ya'll can't plug in one of those AC units on wheels? |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:47:33 AM EDT
[#39]
Hell yes I remember. Fuck Jimmy Carter.
The only good thing he did was legalize homebrewing again. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:08:50 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: you need another minute to think that through? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: ya'll can't plug in one of those AC units on wheels? It works just fine. Point the cold air towards yourself and the hot exhaust at someone you don’t like. Warning…. This does not work if the other person doesn’t want the heat and is bigger or more important than you.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 1:20:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It works just fine. Point the cold air towards yourself and the hot exhaust at someone you don’t like. Warning…. This does not work if the other person doesn’t want the heat and is bigger or more important than you. |
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