Jim Devine wrote: > On 10/18/05, Leigh Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The last 3 places I've rented had natural gas heating and we never >> turned it on... The General consensus is sweatshirts are a much >> cheaper source of home heating. < > > isn't this easier to pull off in California than in, say, Maine?
When I lived in Vermont we closed off the whole house except for rooms that were continually in use, and most of the heating for the remaining parts of the house was provided by the cooking stove, some strategically placed fans, and... sweatshirts. There are big beautiful houses all over New England where only 10% of the building is used in the winter, the rest is, quite literally, cold storage. FWIW, surely you must be thinking of San Diego, not the SF Bay Area, although it's easy to spot the east-coasters in the winter... They're the ones running around in the 40something degree drizzle wearing Hawaiian shirts, shorts, and flip-flops. Up in the hills (Zayante, Felton, Boulder Creek), it regularly goes into the 30s during the winter, and the cars coming down to Santa Cruz have frost (and sometimes snow) on them... Hardly "BayWatch" weather. Leigh
