alt Hacker NewsAmericans don’t get scolded enough for their abuse of AC. In terms of accounting for preventable waste of energy, US guzzles more electricity on cooling than most countries do on everything else.
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Klonoar • today at 12:43 AM
Yes, but we’re at least not dying of sweat.
We do a lot of things wrong but AC isn’t one of them.
(Unless you’re in the PNW where they never needed it before recently, and somehow continue to build units without it)
mcdonje • today at 12:53 AM
We deserve to be scolded for a lot of things, but not that.
bob001 • today at 1:03 AM
Interesting, so that's the price you put on a life? And people say Americans are heartless capitalists.
pfdietz • today at 12:44 AM
"Abuse" -- what a BS term. It's used just as desired; how can that be "abuse"? Because we do what we want rather than what you want us to want?
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Are you going to also scold Americans for using heat in the winter?
Our continent has more extreme weather than Europe... we've adapted accordingly because we value human lives. Have you?