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As long as we still have the option to use gasoline for heating, refrigerants for cooling, have the ability to drive gasoline powered cars and can keep 3/4's of our paychecks. Then yes, socialism is good.
If you have to pay more taxes, give all your money away, have to wait an hour to charge your car to get to the next gas station to charge it yet again for an hour which is the same as renting in terms of efficacy, have to endure freezing cold winters, blazing hot summers and need to care about others then it's shit.
Like I want to be able to survive without paying more, if any one of you start making good money like the 70k$+ bracket you'll all start having the mindset of why the fuck do I have to pay all this shit!, I know someone with an electric car and it has amazing maneuverability and it's quiet af, however it's charge drops quicker than a gas tank ever will.
I'm sorry, not sorry, I fucking love using my natgas boiler for my radiators at 70°f ( fuck all the haters cause all those haters want nuclear power plants which are nuclear rods in water, essentially a radioactive steam boiler) in the winter and my window ac at 65°f-68°f in the summer (along with a pedestal fan).
I'm not going to remove the luxuries of my life for others to have them. I'm not going to lower my usage for others to be able to use them.
In this country if you have the money to afford the stupid shit we buy with the money we can gain up to stupid amounts then go for it be as greedy as you want. If you can afford it do it!!!
Just wait three years and see if the next one will make a difference. Hint: it's Gavin vs J. D. next time place your bets now.
I pay my bills to use my luxuries. I paid for my luxury items. I pay for my insurance. I pay for my coffee and weed. I pay for the things I like using and owning and I pay the extra it takes to run them. That's it, that's life!
Other than that it's populating, eating, drinking, shitting and bitching about life. Sorry but changing the US to socialism isn't a magic fix for life. Changing your life, is a magic fix to your life.
I can't tell if this is satire
That's top tier satire
I will also say, I do wish I had a propane rigged setup for my steam boiler for my radiators because of the Gwp (based on the epa 20 year use) but the efficacy of a flame based heater vs electric is unfathomably better.
A Gasoline car can get me from here to possibly Canada maybe the tip of Michigan. An Electric car can get me from here to the next county.
I don't have a mini split or central air system, I have one a.c. and it's not even in my room, its not even on the floor where my bed is, I use a different pedestal fan for sleeping and have the windows open. In fact, I hate using my a.c. but when I want to use it I want to actually cool down not just go 10° below the outside and be limited by a controller.
I pay my electric bill, I want to use my A.c. however the fuck I see fit. I pay my gas bill. I pay my utilities, so I can run them however much I fuckin' feel like it.
The gwp of propane is like 3 to 8 over 20 years with methane aka natgas is around 86 mainly due to non-combusted natgas. Which combusted natgas has a gwp of around 5 max if that I think it's actually around a 1 or a 3 because burning natgas/methane is less harmful than just spewing it out as a gas. I think it has something to do with he conversion to c02.
Don't hate me hate the epa and science and physics. Hate the fact that from Boston to the tip of Michigan is like 2 tanks of gas vs charging every county for an hour, is a reality because we haven't made electric as good as gas is energy wise. Yes pollution sucks I get that, I'm not for fuck the earth I want to have this planet going long after I'm gone too, I just don't ignore the amount of energy that can be used from different resources and effectively with realistic equipment that is affordable to the everyday civilian consumer. A minisplit is still using a refrigerant. Most heaters are using natgas. Most cars are still gasoline or hybrid which I'm more in favor of vs full electric. The engines that shut off when you're idling in traffic, I love those, those are my all time favorite.
Idk, it also depends where you live. Like in Virginia electricity is fucking expensive. In Alaska it makes more sense to run a natgas heater. In rural areas oil is used. Campgrounds use propane. It's not like things aren't worth using. Like in the consistently hotter areas of the country it makes sense to have electric tankless hot water heaters for showers and have electric heating systems or space heaters for the potential of snow on areas that will most likely never see it or if they do it's the areas like California, Texas, Florida areas that declare snow emergencies for 2" where New England a snow emergency is like the first 5 hours of the day is snow or shovelling snow.
So it does vary by your geographical location on this planet on what your needs are going to be but the statement of if I pay my bills I should be able to use my utilities however I want remains. You all should be able to use your equipment you purchased however you want to with out giving a shit about the person next to you and that's okay. You paid you should get to use it. That's why the boomers do what they do it's not entitlement from nothing they actually show that if you're doing something the right way like paying your bills and paying for what you own you are entitled to be able to use what you own and pay for however you want. I could sell my ac too and never use it again because I paid for it it's mine, I pay the bill to run it I can do whatever I want with it within reason. I can't throw my ac off my balcony but if I'm hot at 3am and it's 93°f in the middle of a heatwave, I'm shooting that shit down to 68°f.
Like I run my ac 1 hour on 2 hours off because its not central (closed loop/recovers the refrigerant in a closed cycle, loud as hell though, I grew up with one I fucking hated the noise it was on the roof too, my neighbors have one and I fuckin hate it, every year I wish it would collapse so they could get a noiseless mini split cassette) I'd have to have it reloaded with more refrigerant and eventuality I would just get sick from all the dry cool air.
I also don't want my electric bill to be too much. So I switch off between cooling the house and using the windows and fans. I have an electric range oven.
Again, I'm with energy efficiency and saving the planet but if you want to survive in certain areas of the planet and not hate your fuckin' self you need what is the most effective not the least polluting.
And because I'm not for fuck the planet I do the conservatative methods too depending on the environmental needs. Which is why I run my a.c. At 68°f for an hour and shut it off for 2. When I shave I fill my sink halfway with water and wipe with a damp towel or turn the water on and off as needed not let it flow the whole time. Same with dishes, I have a small tray for soaking cups and silverware. I use fans at night because when the heatwave/heat dome left my area of the US and the nights were regualr like they are now it gets down to 68°f at night so I don't use my a.c. at night at all. Like I said I have an electric range. I run my heat the same timer interval of 1 hour on 2 hours off and use a space heater during the 2 hours off if I get cold.
I'm not wasteful with resources but again, if I'm waking up drenched in sweat in the middle of a heatwave at 93°f at like 3am, I'm going to the middle of my house where the one window a. C. Is and I'm shooting that shit down to 68°f for an hour and blowing that cold air all over the place with a pedestal fan.
Dictating a post while doing fifteen over on the way to get busted by a tcap yt channel type beat.