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Title: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by jimmers on Mar 27th, 2007, 9:26pm I think the global warming issue is bullshit! DAMN:P Jimmers |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by JeffB on Mar 27th, 2007, 10:10pm Foogin bills! |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by BarbaraD on Mar 29th, 2007, 6:38am on 03/27/07 at 21:26:47, jimmers wrote:
Jimmers, I don't know enough about it to give an opinion (didn't see the movie) but that never stopped me before. I think a lot of it is we've gotten used to more and more comfort and maybe it just seems hotter than it used to. Back in my day (some of you know those days) we didn't have a/c (houses, schools, office buildings, hospitals, or cars). We got "hot" sure, but it was just how it was. I remember the first a/c unit we got at home - one of those window units. We put it in my room cause it was in the back of the house and then had a "fan" to make the cold air (what there was of it) go to the other bedrooms. I thought it was AWFUL because I couldn't close my door and had NO privacy. And you had to be REALLY careful if you got up in the middle of the night cause you might trip over that fan and hurt yourself. The kids played outside all day in the sun - got tanned (we didn't know about sunblock - we just got brown). I guess it was hot (it was Texas - of course it was hot). Older people sat on porches and used paper fans to cool off. didn't seem to bother them too much, but I guess they were used to it - never knew anything else. Church on Sunday, all the windows were open and everyone had paper fans. In schools we just opened the windows and hoped a breeze would blow in. Some teachers had fans. The heat didn't seem to bother us on the playground. But ya know -- we weren't sick a lot and we got along just fine. Do I want to go back to no central air/heat -- I don't think so. Could I survive without it - probably. Could my son - I'm not sure - he's never had anything else. So maybe it's not global warming, but just changes in lifestyles and modern technology. (we also didn't have TV, computers and cell phones and learned to communicate, read, write and use our imagination, but alas, that another thread altogether). Hugs BD |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Brewcrew on Mar 29th, 2007, 7:24am Why is it that back in the 70's, when all the Chicken Little's were running around screaming about global cooling and the coming Ice Age, they weren't telling us to drive more, use more electricity, belch more smoke out of industrial stacks, and bury more plastic in landfills in an effort to warm this place up a little? This fact alone tells me that it's solely a political issue - not one of human importance or scientific significance. |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by BarbaraD on Mar 29th, 2007, 7:29am Yeah Brew, I forgot back in the 40s and 50s we didn't have all the "political" theories and "help" from the government that we have today. We just kinda muddled along on our own. And postage was 2-3 cents and letters got where they were going without a zip code (or most of time a whole name). |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Brewcrew on Mar 29th, 2007, 7:42am on 03/29/07 at 07:29:15, BarbaraD wrote:
Having been born in 1960 I can't speak from personal experience, but it sure seems life was simpler, cheaper and more enjoyable then - back when Uncle Sam didn't reach so far into our pockets. But what do I know? I'm just a caveman. |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Gator on Mar 29th, 2007, 10:32am on 03/29/07 at 07:42:41, Brewcrew wrote:
http://www.brightok.net/~mnjday/caveman1.jpg And just what is THAT supposed to mean? I'm so offended. LOL For a long time when I was growing up in Louisiana, we didn't have an a/c, we had an attic fan. Turn on the fan and open a few windows and that was all you needed. At some point we got a swamp cooler. That rocked. Eventually, the old man got a window unit a/c for the living room. We never had central heat, either - we had a fireplace. I spent many hours as a lad cutting, hauling and splitting firewood. |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Redd on Mar 29th, 2007, 12:54pm I remember the big fall wood cutting parties at my Aunt and Uncles farm. All us cousins from age 11 on up worked 3 weekends in a row. The older ones would chop down and hawl the trees from the back 40 up to the wood shack. The middle ones used the chain saws to cut into chunks. Uncle Joe and Dave ran gas powered the splitter and the rest of us younguns tossed and stacked into the wood shed. In 3 weekends there was enough wood split to last them the entire winter and on into bon fire season in the summer. Mom and Aunt Janet would cook up loads of food to feed all us hungry kids all weekend long. It was never too hot sleeping out in the open hay barn on summer nights... just watch out for the bats.... ;) |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Melissa on Mar 29th, 2007, 1:05pm mmmmmm, bats are crunchy! ;;D |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Charlie on Mar 29th, 2007, 10:46pm Quote:
When I was a kid in the 1950s....the time when everbody got along and felt good about themselves, the tax rates on people making big bucks scraped 90%. Charlie |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Kirk on Mar 30th, 2007, 3:09am Back in the 50s and 60s all we used for heat was the Diesal powered stove in the wheelhouse. Kept eveything nice and toasty. And the Coffee was always on. Out on deck it was wet and cold as a well digger's lucnh box. But you got used to it as you grew up. |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Brewcrew on Mar 30th, 2007, 5:52am on 03/29/07 at 22:46:48, Charlie wrote:
I said our pockets, Charlie! Not their pockets! Silly goose. ;;D |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by burnt-toast on Mar 30th, 2007, 9:16am I also remember the 70's and the global cooling crowd predicting another ice age. Ice cores from the Artic and ancient/modern tree ring counts reflect constant/cyclical fluctuations in climate. However, I believe we’re headed for environmental disaster if we stay on our current path. The increasing types/amount of chemical pollutants we so willy-nilly discard into and concentrate in the environment. Not just industrial - household pollutants for things like thicker/greener/weed & pest free grass. Overdevelopment/destruction of natural buffers for streams/rivers, air and soil that widely disperses concentrated human/chemical waste and increases the need-for/use-of personal transportation. “In the name of progress” and “accumulating wealth” we’ll poison ourselves out of existence long before we find out if the global warming or global cooling crowd is right. Tom |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Melissa on Mar 30th, 2007, 9:43am Know what else is nice and crunchy? June Bugs. mmmmmmmmm ;;D |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Brewcrew on Mar 30th, 2007, 10:24am You know what else? Mother Earth doesn't give a rat's behind whether or not we're here. She'll just keep on keepin' on. |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Paul98 on Mar 30th, 2007, 10:27am on 03/30/07 at 09:43:50, Melissa wrote:
Bats and June Bugs Mel? What's next, roadkill? ;;D -P. |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Melissa on Mar 30th, 2007, 10:30am on 03/30/07 at 10:27:00, Paul98 wrote:
only armadillos and snapping turtles ;;D |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Paul98 on Mar 30th, 2007, 11:11am on 03/30/07 at 10:30:48, Melissa wrote:
I didn't know they had armadildos in West Consin ::) -P. |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Melissa on Mar 30th, 2007, 11:26am on 03/30/07 at 11:11:28, Paul98 wrote:
They don't. It's only thing I like when I'm down south. Crunchy factor and all.... |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by ClusterChuck on Mar 30th, 2007, 12:45pm on 03/30/07 at 10:27:00, Paul98 wrote:
on 03/30/07 at 10:30:48, Melissa wrote:
Armadillos = Texas speed bumps Chuck |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by jimmers on Mar 30th, 2007, 1:51pm How the hell did this thread go from my gas bill amount to roadkill? Ya bunch of goofballs ;;D I love it Jimmers |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by ClusterChuck on Mar 30th, 2007, 2:07pm Hyjack in process ... on 03/30/07 at 13:51:48, jimmers wrote:
HEY!!! I resemble that remark!!! BTW, did any of you'uns notice what a beautiful day it is out there?? 74 F and 23 C, at the moment!!! Chuck |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Paul98 on Mar 30th, 2007, 3:19pm on 03/30/07 at 14:07:41, ClusterChuck wrote:
Road kill gives me gas ;;D -P. |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by ClusterChuck on Mar 30th, 2007, 3:40pm on 03/30/07 at 15:19:04, Paul98 wrote:
Bottle it and sell it!!! You'll be rich! Chuck |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Rosybabe on Mar 30th, 2007, 3:51pm what that has to do with the gas bill? [smiley=huh.gif] mine was $62 and I did not turn the heat up, I kept it at 65F, now the winter is over and my A/C is on and I am keeping it at 80F to save $$... man, it is warm in here :-[ |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Paul98 on Mar 30th, 2007, 4:33pm [quote author=Rosybabe link=board=general;num=1175045207;start=0#24 date=03/30/07 at 15:51:35]what that has to do with the gas bill? [smiley=huh.gif] mine was $62 and I did not turn the heat up, I kept it at 65F, now the winter is over and my A/C is on and I am keeping it at 80F to save $$... man, it is warm in here :-[/quote] Swamp cooler! -P. |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Charlie on Mar 31st, 2007, 1:23am My balance billing gas bill here is $148 a month.... :o I kid you not but then my 47 year old furnace has something to do with it. Charlie |
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Title: Re: By the size of my gas bill.... Post by Rosybabe on Mar 31st, 2007, 3:11pm $148 a month????!!! :o and I am winning for $62 :P |
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