House generally gets down to the 70-72 degree range. In fact my father-in-law was in town for a couple of days, and when I came down this morning around 7am, he was on the couch wrapped in a blanket because it was too cool.

I was good about closing the house up early yesterday and it was hot out (95). Upstairs bedrooms were 79 and 80, downstairs was 76 when I got home around 5:30 or so.

Now what I really need to do is build some storm windows for the old part of the house to get ready for winter.

How cool can you get the house in the night before you lock it up?

Really glad we put the fan in. Besides saving money, we prefer the fresh air at night.

Thanks for stopped by. Actually that is my Dad in Charlotte. (My brother has the same name so I understand the confusion.)

Would you like to share your kilowatt hours used last month?

According to: “Electrical Energy.” The New Book of Popular Science. 2000 edition. Grolier Incorporated, 1998. The average US household consumes 8,900 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year, or a little more than half what George is stating.

Meanwhile, over in Chappaqua NY, Bill and Hillary are downright green, at least compared to your brother’s house.

In an interview with Grist, Hillary said: “We have taken quite a few steps to make sure our house is as green as possible — common-sense and simple steps that everyone can take advantage of. For example, we have switched not only lamps to compact fluorescent light bulbs, but also downlights, track lights, and vanity lights. We’ve installed motion-sensor light switches so lights automatically turn off when there is no one moving in the room, and switched to buying our power from ConEdison’s green power program. We’re also reducing our demand for energy by replacing windows and doors to keep more heat and cold in. This has taken our total [kilowatt-hour consumption per year] from about 14,000 to about 4,300. ”

Now I’m pretty sure they use gas or oil for heat so they don’t have George’s heat pump to pay for, but 4,300 yearly kilowatt hour consumption is at least worth of the nomination, if not the general election.

Remember, Americans consume more total energy air conditioning than India consumes energy — then again its hotter there and there are many more people… D’hoh that makes us even worse doesn’t it.