Control Thermostat
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 Johnson Controls T 8501 Submaster Thermostat NEW  US $200.00
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 ACCUSTAT PSG CONTROLS LV120 AH11 LV120AH11 THERMOSTAT US $135.00
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 Gas Control Thermostat Propane LP Intelli Vent SP20171A Rheem NEW US $116.99
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 Barksdale Bylin Control Thermostat T 1 325 NEW US $115.00
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 Johnson Controls Dual Thermostat T 4516 201 T4516201 US $115.00
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 Bard Master Controller Thermostat US $100.00
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 A 19 ANC JOHNSON CONTROLS THERMOSTAT IN BOX 0 150F US $95.00
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 T 4756 206 Johnson Controls Thermostat US $80.99
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 02 Thermostat made by United Control Company US $80.00
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 NEW Johnson Controls Thermostat T 4506 217 NEW US $80.00
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 Johnson Controls Thermostat Model T 4002 9012 T40029012 US $79.99
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 Hoffman Controls 701 1W ThermoStat 65 85 Degree F NEW US $79.95
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 T 4002 301 JOHNSON CONTROLS Horizontal Mount Thermostat w Cover and Conv US $77.00
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Government Control Over our Heat and What We Eat
The Declaration Of Independence clearly states that the business of government is to secure our rights. I am wondering at exactly what point did the goal of our elected government change from "securing our rights" to the regulation our personal behavior.
The fact is that there has been increasing government intrusion into our daily lives that go far beyond that original intent of the Declaration Of Independence for many years. Smoking and cell phone bans in restaurants, mandatory seat belts in automobiles, and excessive small business regulation to name just a few.
Indeed, some government intrusion of our civil liberties in an age of terrorism on the Federal level is necessary to protect our safety. However, it does seem to me that we have lost our way from the fundamental values of our Declaration Of Independence when we allow government to police our diet and mandate thermostats that give utilities control over the comfort of our own homes and businesses.
Consider the recently proposed state update to building (energy efficient) standards in the state of California. It would allow utilities to regulate the temperature of buildings in emergencies through a radio-controlled thermostat. This radio-controlled thermostat (called a Programmable Communicating Thermostat) would be required in the state of California in all new homes and commercial buildings beginning in April 2009.
This mandatory thermostat (called PCT) is described in the proposed plan to function as follows: "Upon receiving an emergency signal, the PCT shall respond to commands contained in the emergency signal, including changing the set-point by any number of degrees or to a specific temperature set-point. The PCT shall not allow customer changes to thermostat settings during emergency events. The PCT specifications require them to include a "non-removable Radio Data System device that is compatible with the default statewide DR (Demand Response) communications system, which can be used by utilities to send price and emergency signals."
In effect, homeowners and business owners would not be able to change the thermostat in their own homes or businesses whenever utilities call an "emergency event" such as the imminent threat of power blackouts. The utility company would completely control the customer's thermostat on a remote basis. This proposed state update does not provide any exception for health or safety concerns. It also does not even clearly define what these "emergency events" that allow utilities to control the thermostat in your home are. The proposal is scheduled to be considered by the state of California Energy Commission, later this month.
Of course if this mandatory thermostat proposal is allowed, then who knows where this type of government intrusion into our personal life will end. Remote water usage control by water utilities will probably be next. Home and business electricity monitoring and control will soon follow. Eventually your home's heat, air conditioning, water, and electricity usage will be subject to remote monitoring and control through utilities. It use to be said that in life "you get what you pay for". In the future that saying may have to be changed to "you pay for what you are allowed to get, when you are allowed to get it."
Next, consider the fact that New York City has become the first major city in America to ban trans fat (partially hydrogenated cooking oil ) in all of its restaurants. Several other cities are debating the issue to decide if they will follow with a trans fat ban of their own for restaurants. Restaurants are struggling with the problem of how to maintain the taste of their food under the trans fat ban.
Of course the politicians have not told the restaurant owners what they should use for cooking oil in place of trans fat. The restaurants could simply use saturated fat to replace the banned trans fat. Some of us recall that the move to use trans fat occurred as a result of a decision made 20 years ago to switch from saturated fat to trans fat since the latter at that time was thought to be healthier.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who banned smoking in bars and restaurants during his first term as mayor, has led a crusade to ban trans fats in New York restaurants by July 2008. The elimination of trans fat in New York restaurants means different things to different people. Some people think it will cut down on people's intake of junk food and reduce obesity. Others want to reduce the public's exposure to bad cholesterol produced by trans fat that can lead to heart related problems.
Trans fat, which are favored by manufacturers because of their long shelf life, are also found in pre-made products like pancake and hot chocolate mix sold off the shelf daily in any grocery store in New York. In effect, Mayor Bloomberg has decided that restaurants cannot sell products that are cooked in trans fat cooking oil, but grocery stores are allowed to sell trans fat in packaged form.
Also, consider that several years ago, butter was thought to be bad for you. This led to the promotion of margarine as a healthy alternative to butter. It is clear to see how misguided this health initiative was since margarine is made of the same trans fat which is identified as a major health risk today. Since margarine is made of trans fat why was margarine not banned in New York City as well as trans fat cooking oil?
Another concern with government getting into the business of regulating what we eat is the public relations problems that could result. People think that food like hamburgers and french fries become healthy for them just because they are cooked in oil that does not contain trans fat. Also consider where all this could lead. The government ban on trans fat could easily be extended to other products as well. Soon there could be a ban on salt, salty snacks, caffeine, carbonated beverages, sugar and sugar products, and anything else thought to be bad for your health at any moment in time.
Confusion, chaos, and inconsistency are what happens when government tries to legislate what the free market should control. People need to decide what is good and bad eating behavior for themselves and act accordingly. If they fear trans fat then they should not go to the restaurants that produce those products. The restaurant would suffer financially until it changes behavior. This is how our free market system works.
The Declaration of Independence said the business of government is to secure our rights. To "secure our rights" does not mean that state and local governments should control our heat and decide how and what we eat.
About the Author
James William Smith has worked in senior management positions for some of the largest financial services firms in the United States for the last twenty five years. He has also provided business consulting support for insurance organizations and start up businesses. Mr. Smith has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Boston College. He enjoys writing articles on political, national, and world events. Visit his website at http://www.eworldvu.com
Why Switch To The Digital Room Thermostat?
A digital area thermostat is a digital thermostat that controls the specified temperature of the surrounding. Normally what this machine can do for you should be to check and manage the temperature which you have set by turning the heating process or the cooling procedure on and off. As an example, once the temperature inside your room gets through the limit stage which you've got set, the furnace will digital thermostat instantly be turned on to take care of the temperature in the house. To the other hand, after you operate on cooling the surrounding, the air conditioner unit will automobile flip on when the temperature rise greater that the restrict degree your have set.
Unlike the mechanical thermostats, a digital room remote control thermostat provide users a big LCD display screen for you to go through the reading extremely easily. Even older persons with poor eyesight will advantage from this fantastic design. It can be unattainable for persons with poor eyesight to examine in the tiny reading bar in the older types of thermostats.
These superior place thermostats may be programmed in order that it can be turned on or off as and while you set it to. We are not constantly residence, so what exactly is using leaving our thermostat inside 'on' mode the entire day? You understand your each day routines and you'll conveniently preset the gadget and forget about it. When you are out along with your family members, the remote control thermostat flip off by by itself and will instantly flip on whenever you are dwelling because you could have programmed it. Not only will you be no cost in the problem of switching the machine on or off manually, you'll be capable of reduce down on your utility price by saving vitality.
For those who have a concern together with the price of a programmable digital thermostat , you could possibly prefer to install a non-programmable a single. With a lot more innovative technologies as when compared with the mechanical thermostats, the electrical temperature sensor is installed to exchange the bi-metallic technological innovation. The only set back is it lacks the programmable characteristic although all the things else functions just like the programmable digital thermostats.
Before you supply about for your room thermostat, you will want to find out the number of of these products you will need and exactly where you would have them installed. In case you have a single air-conditioner unit plus a single furnace unit, you'll only have to have a thermostat to do the perform to suit your needs. Nonetheless, if you have a greater house with greater than a single level, you'd likely have over a single air-conditioner unit and furnace unit, and what this means is usually that would digital thermostat require more than one particular thermostat to become set up in your own property.
does thermostat control help global warming?
ive been reading up for a school paper on how california wants the government to control home and business's thermostats. it is supposed to help with the amounts of energy use and that kind of thing. my question is: is this thermostat control--controlling the amount of energy we use--supposed to help global warming? or do they not have any connection? and if they are connected, how? how will it help? and please please please give me a link to an article that backs up your point. this would be very helpful. thank u!
The colder you have your thermostat on a hot day, the more your air conditioner needs to run. Air conditions use (a lot of) electricity, which is produced by fossil fuels. Fossil fuels contribute to global warming by emitting carbon.
Here is an article that shows that air conditioners do indeed use electricity:
http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/cooling.html
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