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July 5, 2023
Escape The Heat And Outrageous Energy Bills This Summer: As Two-Thirds Of Americans May See Electrical Blackouts, Steps Must Be Taken To Stay Cool in The Blistering Heat
Summer comes every year, and every year it gets hot, so nothing about what is written below is meant to imply that "man-made" global warming, which they now call climate change, has anything to do with the fact that throughout the history of the world temperatures have fluctuated, and will continue to do so long after we are gone.
Now, with that out of the way, despite the fact that it is not man-made" global warming, or climate change in the manner that the hysterical climate change shills claim, it is still freaking hot out there!
The one thing conservative and liberal media seem to agree on is the fact that energy prices always rise during the summer as people attempt to cool off, and that this year those increases are higher than usual for a variety of reasons.
While inflation has done much damage to American's ability to afford extras or even three meals a day for some, since food inflation for some categories is more than double what the "overall" inflation is, staying cool this summer without paying an arm and a leg for electric bills is something we thought readers would be interested in.
Below we are going to take a look at energy news before offering up suggestions for staying cool when the heat is blistering and you do not have a pool to jump into.
ENERGY NEWS.....
The image above is from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA.gov), showing which states are at risk for energy shortfalls in the high summer heat. Two-thirds of the nation are at elevated risk for an energy shortfall. Electrical blackouts are not only a possibility, but in some states a probability.
This is not just coming from Independent Media, but even the MSM is reporting that "two-thirds of North America could suffer blackouts this summer." (CNN)
Not only are we looking at possible blackouts and spiking electricity bills, but it is being reported that this summer is going to cost "$1 billion in U.S. healthcare costs between an expected "235,000 emergency department visits and more than 56,000 hospital admissions across the country this summer."
All that heat is bad for human health and leads to a rise in hospitalizations for cardiovascular, kidney, and respiratory diseases, particularly among the urban poor, who often lack access to air-conditioning and green spaces. Those hospitalizations will come with a hefty price tag. A new report from the public policy research group, Center for American Progress, estimates extreme heat will create $1 billion in healthcare-related costs in the United States this summer. The analysis, provided exclusively to Grist, projects that excessive heat will spur nearly 235,000 emergency department visits and more than 56,000 hospital admissions for conditions related to increased body temperature across the country this summer.
“As the number of heat-event days increases, the probability that people are going to get rushed to the emergency room or get hospitalized increases,” said Steven Woolf, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a professor of family medicine and population health at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, and a coauthor of the report. “We were interested in trying to quantify how big a risk that is.”
Of course they are blaming climate change, because that is the "in" thing to do these days instead of acknowledging that weather has always changed, will always change and there is nothing that will change that fact.
Earth was here before us and it will be here long after we go extinct. It takes extreme hubris to think that man can destroy it.
Between the possibility of blackouts, and the energy costs even if the electricity stays on, and the expenditures for emergency rooms visits for those that don't stay cool enough, every American should be preparing to stay cool as cheaply as they can this as the summer heat intensifies.
BOTTOM LINE - STAYINGING COOL......
In researching this piece we found some very creative ways to stay cool, including a fan with plastic soda bottles filled with ice water attached to the back with cable ties, a large block of ice in front of a fan, portable air cool milk carton (lol), turning your cooler into a makeshift air conditioner, and more.
The creativity level of some of the ideas shown at the link above, is off the charts!
One thing everyone should have this summer is a generator. Between summer storms and the possibility/probability of summer blackouts, almost any way to stay cool is going to require electricity, even the suggestions below, which use it, but use far less than central AC.
Once you know you have electricity even in a power outage, rather than central AC when generally most people only use a room or two unless they have children, money can easily be saved by using a number of different types of room coolers.
From window units to portable AC machines to around-the-neck coolers, one can stay cool without spending a small fortune.
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