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Originally Posted by dcb
. . Problem is comfort slowly drifts into "needs" over time in the vernacular, and in reality there is a big difference between comforts and needs.
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Then you have misunderstood the necessity of A/C. If it were optional then it wouldn't be considered near-manslaughter to leave children and old people in a parked car. Windows open or not. Urban sprawl and the urban heat island effect -- combined with smog/ozone -- make living in a wide swath of the US A/C-dependent as cars are the only way to get around. That isn't a question of
comfort, in reality. (Read up on the effect of no A/C for the hospitalized or the elderly in New Orleans after Katrina. Or Chicago in 1995).
One may as well argue the need vs. comfort of a roof. Or a windshield.
The reason this discussion belongs to this thread, of weather data, is that over a large geographical region A/C use has to be figured in.
How it is used is no different, in main, than worrying over the use of the heater in re FE, and to the point of the thread title.
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