You just cant make this shit up.http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016...t-as-isis.html
Secretary of State John Kerry said in Vienna on Friday that air conditioners and refrigerators are as big of a threat to life as the threat of terrorism posed by groups like the Islamic State.
The Washington Examiner reported that Kerry was in Vienna to amend the 1987 Montreal Protocol that would phase out hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, from basic household and commercial appliances like air conditioners, refrigerators, and inhalers.
“As we were working together on the challenge of [ISIS] and terrorism,” Kerry said. “It’s hard for some people to grasp it, but what we–you–are doing here right now is of equal importance because it has the ability to literally save life on the planet itself.”
“The use of hydrofluorocarbons is unfortunately growing,” Kerry said. “Already, the HFCs use in refrigerators, air conditioners, and other items are emitting an entire gigaton of carbon dioxide-equivalent pollution into the atmosphere annually.
New EPA rules along with the global deal would band HFCs in the United States and push for alternative chemicals for use in appliances.
Aside from the absurdity that somehow the Islamic terror group is as much of a threat as air conditions comes the scary future of higher appliance purchase/repair costs.
One need only look to the cost of R-22 for air conditioners which will typically cost a home owner $100-$120 per pound + a service call for an AC tech to come out seeing as you need a licence to purchase R-22 in the first place.
R-22 is used in older AC systems, ie ones you find in low income homes and trailers so when these people need a recharge they pay an amazingly and intentionally inflated price that they may not even be able to afford.
The alternative is to replace their handler and condenser.
I say and because yet another set of crippling government regulations forbid licensed ac techs from mixing the seer rating between the two components outside of a certain threshold which regularly equates to a 1-2 year difference in manufacturing date.
So while a home owner may have a fully functional handler with a broken compressor, or vice versa, they will often be unable to just replace one of the two components and will be forced by government regulation to replace both.
The newer systems mostly use R-410A which is the substitute for R-22, but now even that is coming under attack from the hostile and unnecessary attacks.
Whats it mean for us?
Well just as Obamacare brought an uncertain future of health care expenses regulations like these create an uncertain future for the cost of home maintenance.
Closing thought: If the danger of air conditioning is really the same as a mass murderous Islamic terrorist group then I challenge the DNC to turn off its AC for the upcoming convention.
How much of a chance do you think there will be in that happening?
Do as I say, not as I do.