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Planet Gore on National Review Online

Setting the pace, the Minister himself stormed into a conference room for his summer university lecture on Tuesday at the old summer palace el Escorial outside of Madrid, and demanded that the air conditioning be turned off, as a wretched indulgence of the weak.

Planet Gore on National Review Online

I rode in my first Hybrid vehicle on a HOT day, yesterday, and learned something about those suckers that will really stink (figuratively and likely literally) for New Yorkers — when the battery kicks in, the compressor on the air conditioner kicks out. No cool air coming out of the vents when the gasoline ain’t pumping. Just the fan going.

And having lived in NYC for five years, summers can be such a joy in an unairconditioned cab. Imagine, rush hour traffic at a standstill, which means the hybrid’ll kick into battery power constantly. Temperatures in the upper eighties, humidity at 90 percent — and cool air coming into the cab only a few minutes at a time. Won’t that be a joy on those hot, humid summer city days!