>>>>>>>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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>>>>That's right. You don't see it as an Obama apologist.
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>>>I am just fair and balanced :)
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>>Once in a while at work, someone will say to me that his office is so cold he's freezing in there. I go in and oddly enough, I don't actually freeze. "You could grow orchids in there" sounds like the same sort of hyperbole to me.
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>>The other issue is that people are comfortable at different temperatures. I like it a bit on the cool side, other people want desperately to turn up my thermostat because they're freeeeezing. ;)
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>I agree with you. It drives me nuts when folks use space heaters and heat their office up to 85 degrees or worse, turn the heat up so all of us can suffer. You can easily put on a sweater to warm up, but what are the rest of us supposed to do? Start stripping? :o)


Even better, we had a space heater user who's cube also hosted the thermostat for the office. They were warm while the rest of the office froze.