“Operation Thermostat”: Energy rationing & the pivot from Ukraine to climate?

Guest Post by Kit Knightly

Italy is officially becoming the first country to start rationing energy after cutting their supply of Russian gas and oil.

From next month, until at least March 2023, public buildings across the nation will be banned from running air conditioning at lower than 25 degrees, or heating higher than 19 degrees.

The plan, termed “Operation Thermostat” in the press, is being sold as a way for ordinary people to show “solidarity” with the people of Ukraine, with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi saying:

Do we want to have peace or do we want to have the air conditioning on?”

I’m not exactly sure how adjusting your thermostat is going to achieve ‘peace’, but hey we’re living in the age of sentimental manipulation over reason, so – just believe.

For example, the Guardian is illustrating the story with pro-peace artwork allegedly done by Italian schoolchildren (in English, for some reason).

There’s no talk yet of this kind of energy-rationing rule extending to private businesses or homes, but a marker has been set down. Expect other nations to follow suit.

After that of course will come the opinion pieces asking questions like “we rationed gas to fight Putin, why not climate change?”, and headlines saying that “Europe-wide gas rationing was good for the planet” or something similar.

…Oh wait, it’s already happening.

Honestly, when I originally wrote the above paragraph I had no idea the Wall Street Journal had published this opinion piece for Earth Day, headlined:

This Earth Day, We Could Be Helping the Environment—and Ukraine”

It argues that rationing energy to fight Putin is just like digging for victory to fight Hitler, and – just as I predicted – would also be good for the planet:

During the Second World War, victory demanded more oil […] In the wars dominating the globe today — Putin’s land grab in Ukraine, and the global land grab caused by rising sea levels and spreading deserts — victory demands getting off fossil fuels as fast as we possibly can.

It even hints at a quasi-lockdown – this time for the sake of beating Putin and combating climate change:

Everyone who can work from home could continue to do so, at least on, say, Mondays, knocking a day off the national commute. Carpools could be organized, taking special advantage of the fact that there are now two million electric cars on the road. More bike paths could be made available, and, when air-conditioning season begins, Americans could turn their thermostats up a degree.

Remember lockdowns were marketed as planet-saving almost from the moment they were put in place, despite it making almost zero sense. The agenda was pretty obvious right from the start.

It’s interesting that “operation thermostat” should be announced on April 22nd – Earth Day – despite having zero to do with climate change. It’s also noteworthy that climate protests groups have piggy-backed on the idea to call for an EU-wide boycott of Russia’s fossil fuels.

We already know they planned a “pivot from covid to climate”, and moves like this mean they can easily “pivot from Ukraine to climate” too.

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In related news,
the Babylon Bee now has to officially fold:

“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is among five people [including Liz Cheney] named Thursday as recipients of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for acting to protect democracy.”

https://nypost.com/2022/04/22/ukraine-president-zelensky-earns-john-f-kennedy-award-for-defending-democracy/

How can one even top that, outside of the worn-out Nobel piss prize?
‘Pope canonizes Zelensky’??

Stucky

“public buildings across the nation will be banned from running air conditioning at lower than 25 degrees, “

25 degrees, eh?

Q: What is the freezing point for Italian testicles?

Q: Why is Italy shaped like a boot?
A: Ya can’t fit all that bullshit in a sneaker.

Italy has also become an Idiocracy. That virus is spreading like wildfire.

Rossa
Rossa

25c is 77f, not exactly cold.

Stucky

OOPS!!!! Forgot all about the “celsius” thingee.

Ghost
Ghost

To quote/paraphrase our favorite PussyWhippedNegro, Will Smith, “Keep my [wife’s name/husband’s testicles] out of your fucking mouth!!!!”

And, where were you when God created the heavens and the earth, hmmmm?

Anonymous
Anonymous

OK, for the Italians . . . be careful, because if you place a lamp, preferably an incandescent lamp, pointed at the thermostat – the thermostat may not read correctly and the air conditioning will come on before it should. This is a problem, because the computer monitoring software will fail to detect any tampering, and it even works if some asshole locked the thermostat in an enclosure for some reason.

I suppose you could do the same in winter, for heating, with an ice pack.

Paleocon
Paleocon

This is wjy I resisted the Google Nest. Govt can override your settings unlike Jimmy Carter in th 70s.

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