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...there was talk of CLO factors (clothing insulation value) and acclimatization periods. In this case, though, the agency involved was the Department of Energy and the proposed effective date 1979, not 1984. Part of President Carter's stand-by energy-conservation measure approved by Congress last May, the plan in question would require that thermostats in nonresidential buildings be set no lower than 80° F in the summer and no higher than 65° F in the winter, and that hot water settings be turned down to 105° F. Should Carter decide to implement the measure this...
...most identifiable group affected by the measure will be employees working in buildings subject to the plan's interpretations. These employees are likely to experience minor discomfort and small losses in productivity...
...This plan bears a wilting resemblance to the Petroleum Consumption Curtailment Countermeasures adopted last March in Japan, which urged workers to set their thermostats at 28° C (82.4° F). Although the fashion has yet to catch on with the public, Energy Czar Masumi Esaki has been trying to promote what he calls the Sho-ene (save energy) Look-a short-sleeved suit, sans tie, which he wore to greet Carter last week in Tokyo...
...against," declares Fred Crawford, director of the Center for Research in Social Change at Atlanta's Emory University, "is having our personal freedoms and choices so circumscribed that ordinary citizens are being turned into lawbreakers." Crawford also believes that national habits will change if Carter's plan is enacted: people will spend more time at home where they can turn on the air conditioner...
...public hearings on the plan held in five cities, many citizens criticized Carter's plan and proposed energy-saving alternatives, including investment credits for the installation of more efficient cooling and heating systems. "The President's 80° proposal is intolerable," declared Houston Mayor Jim McConn. "With Houston's high humidity, it would cause the teak in Jones [symphony] Hall to fall off the walls, the glue binding books in the library to crystallize, clothing in department stores to mildew and blood donors to faint." He claims that his alternative-setting thermostats at 76° F, starting...