Koolau
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From Financial Times:
Germany is going to set the thermostat at 19C (66F) this winter to reduce natural gas consumption. It is trying to fill the storage tanks to 95% by November 1, before the winter comes. They are at 75% now.
Klaus Müller, head of the federal network agency (BNA), will be in charge of rationing gas supplies. He said residential users would have top priorities, and added that there was no way to make people cut back usage, but he hoped that people would cooperate. Müller is working hard to determine the priorities of the commercial and industrial users.
Notes: In 1977, US president Carter called for US citizens to set the thermostat at 65F during the energy crisis.
In France, the grocery chain Carrefour said it would set the temperature in its stores to 19C (66F), and was prepared to lower it to 17C (63F) if needed.
We don't have a thermostat and the temp rarely gets down to 65F. But seriously, Europe, and hopefully the rest of the world is learning not to trust their energy (or anything else) to others that differ radically on geopolitical issues. It just doesn't make sense. Let's hope this all shakes out with out too much misery. YMMV