LES Asked to Conserve Electricity

Yesterday, a transformer overheated in the East Village, just as Con Ed asked residents in the Lower East Side to discontinue using "non-essential" electrial equipment. Newsday said that Con Ed's examples of "non-essentials" were washers, dryers, and AC units, which means Con Ed must believe computers, stereos, TVs, PlayStations, and the whatnot are very essential. The LES joined Fort Greene and Harlem as areas in the city that Con Ed has targeted to "conserve" energy," and Con Ed continues to say they have enough energy this year - so far. But this neighborhood electricity conserving is a fun game: Gothamist guesses the Upper East Side will be hit next.

It's a hot one today, and yesterday, the NY Times tried to put a silver lining in the oppressively hot weather we've been having by reminding us that New York suffered even hotter weather in 1936, when it was 106 degrees. Well, of course, we're glad there aren't rotting horse corpses around, but it doesn't mean we're not yearning for the day we can commute to work by Jetsons-like transport tubes.

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By Jen Chung in News on August 4, 2005 3:13 PM

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StickYourHeadOUtside

Swamp coolers only work when it's relatively dry. NYC is muggy as my nutsack, so those gadgets won't do a thing but drip water all over your floor.

NotSoHealthy

You guys are still using air conditioners? What a waste of money!

freedc_2000

You are all wrong. Chelsea (west of 5th Ave, north of 14th, south of 34th) was the last neighborhood to get their power back during the blackout. It was around 11PM. And this should tell you all something. Con ed is not classist. Nor do they hate hipsters. They are obviously homophobic. (sarcasm)

jenna terrorcon

Cascas, Kojak. GO suck a fuck. Sure you can blame people for energy consumption at their own leisure. You want to blame Iraq on us go ahead. You are such douches. Telling people what to do. Who are you to judge? let's look at your own life and we can find a lot of fault's there. I bet both of you probably waste a whole heaping ton of energy throughout your life and here you are on your high horse comparing people who want to use energy to their liking to scum of the earth and when that doesn't work you'll call us nazis like the communists you are.

Sanjay

Wait....no Nazi implications? What about the Hittites?

Just in case, i'm turning my AC up to 78, maybe 80 degrees.

fyi

also, the LES area they give includes where I live in the East Village. But guess what, I'm keeping my AC on!

URL:

http://www.wnbc.com/news/4807497/detail.html

fyi

FYI:

The request for Harlem gives specific boundaries that include Morningside Heights.

See here:

http://www.conedison.com/inews.htm

cascas

I think I spot a troll, but anyhow...

Go ahead Jenna, use as much electricity as you want. Just don't blame us when the whole city's under 20ft of water due to the global warming you helped cause...

jimmy carter

I think we should turn off the A/C and put on swim trunks.

Kojak

You truly are insane. Are you really this ditzy or are you joking?

And what does the World Train Center tragedy have to do with the topic currently under discussion?

jenna terrorcon

So, what about those people who died in the Word Trade Center? Do you justify their deaths cause they wasted, splurged and took everything for granted so they had bad karma and died horrible deaths? You are such an asshole to say that. who are you to dictate how much energy we should use? what a fucking dick!

Kojak

loll

Wow. your such a waste of life. Go ahead, waste, splurge, take everything for granted. But one day when your caught in a situation where it all vanishes, I expect you'll do nothing else but wither away and die.

Hopefully most people are not as foolish as you are. I wouldn’t want another blackout in this heat.

jenna terrorcon

yeah, why not. if you are you wanna waste your money on ac when you are out of the house that's your prerogative. I wouldn't cause it's bad for your air con to leave it on all day but whatever. Yeah who are you to tell people how to use their energy? are you the Electric gestapo? It's a free country you damn republican. First you'll tell people to conserve energy then tell people they need to keep their babies. it never ends with people like you. I'm PRo choice baby. The choice to waste electricity that I paid for.

Kojak

No Shit.

So I should stop using electricity all together? I use only what I need and within reasonable limits. And that is acceptable.

"If I wanna use 4000 kw/hr. I'll use it cause I paid for it." So If i used your approach, I should keep my AC on while im out of the house, because hey... I'm paying for it.

Asinine Indeed

jenna terrorcon

kojak, how the hell did you write this emessage. You used a computer that used ELECTRICITY. shut up you hypocrite.

Kojak

Jenna Terrorcon = Glutton

Its people like you who're running this planet into the ground.

Go outside and hug a tree.

jenna terrorcon

cascas asshole, of course I understand the laws of thermodynamics. How the fuck do plants use the energy from the sun? it's called photosynthesis. they convert sun energy right? fuck yuo very much.

cascas

I think Jenna needs to go read and understand the three laws of thermodynamics before making stupid-ass comments like that.

pugsley

Yeah, screw the Coned hipsters. Obviously they haven't installed enough transformers on the LES. The professional whiners on the upper west side probably have extra transformers. The LES got their electricity back on last too. Crank up the electricity until they install more transformers.

Ferris Probiscus

Diabolix, how is racism if they just do it to lower income areas? Aren't there poor white people that live in those areas too? racism has to do with race right? Or are you talking street lingo and racism means "bad" which means "good" in ebonics like "Ill and Dope" mean. Like that's "RACISM YO!" HOLLA BACK!