Big Brother to Control Thermostats
Posted on January 14th, 2008 by admin
Claudia Chandler, assistant executive director for the California Energy Commission, claims residents will be able to manually override controls in all cases, but the 2008 Building Efficiency Standards (Page 64), known as Title 24, specifically states: “The PCT shall not allow customer changes to thermostat settings during emergency events.”
Ralph Cavanagh, an energy expert with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in an interview that at a time of peak electricity use, “most people given a choice of 2 degrees of temperature setback and 14th-century living would happily embrace this capacity.”
Maybe someone should tell Mr. Cavanagh that most people are sick of a government who can’t resist a single opportunity to exploit and abuse it’s power. And he can stick his “2 degree temperature setback” where the sun doesn’t shine.
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