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Originally Posted by Double L
People lived here before air conditioning and it has been established in this thread that there will be ways to live without it if necessary.
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I never said people didn't live there before A/C. But 7 million people didn't live there before air conditioning. Even the British government gave diplomatic staff assigned to Houston "hardship pay," similar to what they gave for assignments to places like Egypt or India.
It is my contention that high energy costs, or a reduction in people's ability to pay for energy, would start an immediate and major decline of the city and area.