We have been treating a luxury, comfort heating and cooling, as a commodity. What? You say a luxury? I realized this as I thought about the fallout from DOE’s proposed changes to the SEER standards, and the fact that some are asking for significantly higher standards.
We have fooled ourselves into believing we deserve central heating and cooling. It wasn’t long ago in the grand scheme of things that central cooling didn’t exist. Central forced air heat is only about 100 years old in its current rendition.