Wednesday: Hot & sweaty
Mood: irked
Song In Head: “The Rising” (Bruce Springsteen) (yap, two days in a row) (buy. this. now)
Here’s what’s chaffing my cheese…
When there’s a heat wave, the electric companies always ask the local media to hound residents about their electricity consumption. Having learned about turning off lights, water, etc. during the energy crises of the late 1970s, it’s already my habit to use as little electricity as possible. Now Penelec (Pennsylvania’s big electric company) is actually going on the news themselves telling residents about blown transformers and about how we should use fans instead of a/c, etc.
Funny though how the transformer that blew last weekend was by the mall.
Imagine if you will all the businesses that are using computers, air conditioners, lights, etc. at this very moment. Now compare any of these businesses to your home. Where do you think the fault lies for over-consumption of energy?
Monday it had been in the mid-ninties that day and we do not have central air (window units in computer room - where I work all day - and our bedroom). Hawk said, “It’s too hot to cook. Let’s go out.” So we went out to TGIFridays. We do not eat there often. Usually b/c no one will get us a table. But I wanted their teriyaki steak on a stick. It was crap and the service sucked. We’re not going back. Anyhow, the place was freezing. I mean, I was in a t-shirt and shorts and I was cold. Goosebump cold.
So yesterday was Hawk’s b-day (yay!) and so we went out for lunch at our most regular place, Max & Erma’s. It was cold. Cold cold cold. And then to Borders. Comfortable, but you get my point. And then the movie theater. Cold, bay-bee. Shagadelically cold.
So why should I have to turn my little window a/c off so that a big restaurant or a 17-screen theater can stay at 65 degrees? Why doesn’t Penelec ask businesses to conserve their use? Hell, I don’t even have a light on in this house but they have to keep the warehouse-y WalMart cool. Fuck that.
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