I didn't see that this list said it was his preferences for Michigan during winter...

Got to have a cold hotel room, I even run the AC in the winter. Plus the fan white notice helps.

A room at 60 degrees during the Spring, Summer and part of the Fall results in a lot of wasted energy. Again, an example of Senator Sanders failing to walk the talk.

FWIW, I keep my heat at about 50 at night, 55 during the day.

Seems like that directive applies to anywhere, even Arizona during summertime or Florida now, where it is in the seventies at my place.

Keeping a room at 60 degrees wastes a lot of energy.

During the night, it's often quite cool. All winter, my house is set to 50 degrees (heat). I use very little oil (we heat with oil).

Of course, that's just me.

During the spring, at night, it is often cool in our house. In the summer it can get hot, but as you imagine - not often. And it does cool down most nights - even during some of the summer. It's not uncommon.

He's up in Burlington, so it's cooler up there. He might have AC in his home (I have no idea). But I'd bet most nights it's down in the 60's.

ETA: Burlington's hottest month is July and the temp range is just - 81 during the day and down to 60 at night.

So, yes. Most months it goes down to 60 at night

I know of only two places where I have been where that took place, Flagstaff and San Francisco (inversion during the late summer). Flagstaff is at a very high elevation.

It is 60 in July. That's the hottest month up there .

It will get down into the low 60s or high 50s much of the summer. It's about 7,000 feet there, which helps.

there once and almost froze my butt off in July, during the day.

I'll give him that.

enough. No noise, like anyone can control that.

Keeping a room at 60 degrees wastes a lot of energy, making matters worse.

He once again fails to walk his talk.

I sleep with it set to 65, per the article the NIH guidelines recommend 66. Jimmy Carter donned a sweater and asked us to turn down our thermostats, why is it a problem when Bernie does just that?

Since the information came from people that worked for him, the working assumption is it needed to be set to 60 at ALL times, massively wasting energy for 60% of the year.

Everyone has an agenda.

If it was not all the time, they would say "in the Summer" or "in the winter".

Best friend of TV's Mary Richards explained her reason for moving to Minnesota: "I figured if I was frozen I'd keep better."

60 degrees is ridiculous - and this is speaking as a woman of a certain age (hot flashes, night sweats) who lives in FL. Despite my out-of-whack internal thermostat, I've never had my home AC below 75 and I'm perfectly comfortable.

60 degrees is nonsense - and really bad for AC systems. They freeze up.

Scroll ahead to slide #10

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/ss/slideshow-why-always-hot

That explains why people with heart conditions tend to feel the temperature more.

then taking too much insulin can also cause hypoglycemia which results in the night sweats. For men, low testosterone levels can also lead to the night sweats. I've been experiencing the night sweats once or twice a week over the past couple of months myself.

And I've always been this way. Go figure.

People would come, especially those from northern states, and crank down the AC into the 60s, and then call us in the middle of the night wondering why it was no longer working. Because you turned it into a big block of ice you nitwit. Air conditioners freeze below a certain temperature. Turn it to a minimum of 70, take off all your clothes, sleep with just a sheet, turn on a fan. Or else stay home where it’s 20°, open all your windows, and quit your bitching.

Feeling your pain there.

Love the ceiling fan.

I lived down there for almost 18 years. I live in Vermont, now - and I keep the heat at 50-55 all winter. So, our house is quite cool! Folks who visit us from down South have a hard time with that.

You know how it goes. You get used to what you get used to

We have a family reunion last year, in early May, in New Smyrna Beach, FL (just south of Daytona Beach). We rented a condo in our usual place. The thermostat had a sign saying don't put it below 70 or it will freeze.

We had it no lower than 74... and it froze. It wasn't that hot, and we really didn't fuss with the thermostat. Suddenly it got very humid in the unit. A service person came, said it was frozen and they moved us to another unit for the last night.

60 is ridiculous. No one needs that.

all are factors to make the unit struggle harder. And it takes hours for it to defrost and work normally, so if you are in a hotel/motel/resort and all the other rooms are occupied... then you are SOL.

Per the article, the NIH recommends 66 to sleep. I like 65. Bernie likes 60.

I am free to comment on the arbiter of the Green New Deal increasing the damage to the Earth with his demands.

A German guest called me at the front desk to complain there was a “small alligator” in his bathroom

I headed on down to the room, and found, you guessed it, one of our Florida geckos.

Every once in a while during a super dry spell a scorpion would show up in a bathroom or kitchen. Then the phone call... “OMG, I think there is a scorpion in my unit! Are there scorpions in The Florida Keys?”
Yeah, dude. It’s the tropics, lol!

But I luv luv luv the baby alligator one! I have to pass that on!

It took me a few minutes on the phone to understand he was saying “alligator.”

And oh yes, I remember the scorpions lol. Ah, I miss the Keys.

I only turn on the heat while bathing during winter months and only if the temperature drops into the 60s.

I see where you are coming from though. Your situation makes body surface temperature control really difficult, but even in your case, you don't waste energy.

Maybe Senator Sanders should talk to Prince Charles, a man who walks around turning off lights in unoccupied rooms because he see that as a small measure to try to help save the planet.

I also carry a hand fan and a battery operated fan with me during the summer. It's not enough, sometimes. My kids were soccer players/track stars/band members. I've spent years sitting in bleachers cheering them on. Lots of times, I'd end up in the cafeteria/medical tent/my car cooling down while I missed part of their games/performances.

Jimmy Carter asked us to turn down our thermostats, why is it a problem when Bernie does just that?

This is about keeping an AC unit at 60 degrees. What are you talking about?

Hotels generally have combo heating/cooling units. What are *you* talking about? The NIH recommends 66 to sleep, I like 65, Bernie likes 60... it's a non-issue.

The first thing I do in a hotel is flip the ac on. I need it cold to sleep well. Many people run hot. I have my whole life.

This is what we’re picking apart now?

I’m guessing a somewhat slow news day.

He probably turns the bathroom light on to pee at night, too.

place. I like having a fan in the room, but don't demand one. I use the cool/heat system in my home maybe 10% max of the year, and I live in Florida.

Where are you getting "demand"?

...I'm a freak about noise.

But 60 degrees? I'm just the opposite, I need my room warm.

I went to Toronto a year ago (my annual trip) and stayed at the Marriott near the airport - $250 a night. It was FREEZING in the room. I was told the next morning the heating system was out. When was it going to be fixed? "About two weeks!" Checked out and moved to another hotel.

Toronto in September is very chilly at night.

Keeping a rom at 60 degrees constantly is very energy efficient. A politician who talks up something should have personal habits that reflect that he does what he expects others to do.

"to fall asleep more easily."

If I set it at 60 it would literally run continuously and eventually break.

... finding a fan!

I think we need Bernie to release records of hotel thermostat temperature settings over the last 6 years (need to include the 2016 campaign also to prove a long-term disorder). Meanwhile we can get some HVAC experts to speculate on the cost of of both the temperature AND the fan settings. You cannot forget the fan settings!

/s

This is such a bullshit thread. Totally unimportant. No meaningful information here. Just a circle jerk for Bernie Sanders haters.

If it is on AC, then it is way too cold. Atleast for me. I can't imagine cranking the AC rhat low.