Heat Alerts Were Issued From Boston To Philadelphia As Temperatures Soar

[brett_jv]

18. I hope that post is just missing the sarcasm tag ...

The fact that humans live here in SW Arizona (it hit freaking 116 last week, when it wasn't even July yet) is ridiculous, really. I read an article a couple weeks back listing the places in the US that are most likely to be hosed by GCC, and this hell-hole was listed #1. If this entire region wasn't AC'd (or at least swamp-coolered) people would drop dead like flies every single day from mid-June to Mid-September.

Someone from this area railing about the unsuitability of the 'habitat' of the Eastern Coast for human life has GOT to be high, stupid, and/or joking! We had no business building a metropolis of 4M people in this environment.

Personally, however, I think the effects of Peak Oil will hit this area harder, and sooner, and within 10 years people will be moving away in droves, esp. since right-wingers are mostly in charge here so they'll never spend the money to get a good public transportation system set up before oil starts getting scarce and the cost of it skyrockets. And when oil starts getting scarce, the cost of electricity will also rise accordingly even though we don't burn oil for power here ... oil being in shorter supply globally will raise the cost of all energy sources, and it's already really tough for many people here to pay the SRP bill in the summer ... $350/month is not uncommon, even for a smaller single-story house from July-Sept.