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Dave probably lives in a cold climate where it rains and snows all the time. He likely spends his weekends hiding out in his bus feeling pangs of guilt for driving it at all, shivering without heat trying to make himself feel better about it. Or maybe he lives in Miami and takes solace in weekends spent dehydrated and heat struck.
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None of which really has a lot to do with our beloved Busses, though. Mine, I just drove 800 miles down to Telluride, running A/C all the way. If I still lived in the south, you bet I would have an external A/C unit. I'd keep the fridge extra stocked with beer shipped from afar too. (Expressly Stated) smiley face :-) --Michael Wise '99 EVC and '08 R32 Ketchum, Idaho Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message-----
From: "KG KIRKLEY" <kgkirkley@...> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:33:22 To:ev_update@... Subject: Re: [ev_update] Re: A/C and Poptop Photos Added to Photos Section In a message dated 06/19/08 16:20:07 Central Daylight Time, dave_king_ev@... writes: When it's hot, I accept being a little hotter. When it's cold, I accept being a little colder. I do have a furnace and AC, and I use them both. I'm no Luddite, but I also live in the real world: summer hotter, winter colder. This idea that we MUST manage our environment to keep temps in a narrow comfort range AT ALL TIMES wastes huge amounts of energy. Too hot to go camping?....then don't go camping. Or sweat. Same with food. When I was a kid there was a thing called "seasonal" food. Anyone remember that? For example, you couldn't get strawberries in the winter. They just weren't on the shelves, and no one went to the produce department at the A&P and asked "Where are the strawberries (or the watermelon, or the cantelope)?" No one asked because we already knew the answer. But nowadays I doubt the average child even knows what "seasonal" means. Nowadays you can walk into Walmart and buy a quart of strawberries the size of ping pong balls (and about as tasty) every day of the year (and every hour of the day) for just a couple bucks. THAT's waste. That's an energy-wasting culture run amuck. We grow artificially irrigated and fertilized fruits year round and ship them all over the country so we can have strawberries 24/7? And then we call that a balanced diet. It's insane. All that insanity is pissing away our energy. We can't drive our vans and piss away our energy at the same time. Not for long. I don't want strawberries in the winter. I don't want 5000BTUs of AC on top of a van parked in 100+F Texas. I want to be hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and looking forward to strawberries when they are in season. Balance. No smiley face expressed or implied. So...this begs the question.....where do you live? I don't disagree with you in theory. I grew up without air conditioning in houses, schools, churches,businesses, public buildings or cars. But it has been proven that humans are happy and more productive when they are comfortable. Sure humans can 'survive' extremes of heat and cold and even tolerate it, but we really have rather narrow comfort zone. Someone once said....if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. Kent Kirkley '97EVC [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this group, send a message to mailto:ev_update-unsubscribe@... Yahoo! Groups Links |
