>>>>Didn't Obama say during the campaign that we should keep our t-stats at 72F? Yet, he is keeping White House at 80F.
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>>>>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/28/under-obama-white-house-l_n_162085.html
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>>>I read the whole article. It never says what the old temperature was or the new one. Maybe it used to be 65 and now it's 70.
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>>>Tamar
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>>You are right, 80F is not cited in this article. However, when his adviser says "He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there." it sounds to me much more than 70. I guess we see things differently.
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>I saw Axelrod's comment as hyperbole, not that it was really tropical. My guess is that it's warmer than 70 but not as high as 80, as that would be uncomfortably warm.
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>Tamar

Not as an argument but rather as a funny note I will tell you about a friend we have (they are actually neighbors). The husband likes to be - always - so warm that he sits at night and sleeps in a guest bedroom, keeps an electric heater there. The wife says that she cannot be more than 1 minute in his room, it is a literally a scorching heat. So he is "uncomfortably" cold when the temperature is 75F :).