Ways to use less energy

I am a southerner.

I live in the Southeastern portion of the country.

That means I am regularly involved in a love-hate relationship with our air conditioning unit. I honestly prefer our a/c, and I hope I never have to live without it. This is tploy for the AC in our house as well as the AC in our car and in our office at our workplace, however even though in our office multiple of us still assume the need to run the portable heating system because the thermostat on the air conditioning is set to low, I still would never want to do without it. That being said, I also get quite aggravated with our Heating as well as Air Conditioning plan because it is high-priced to operate. It is regularly a superb system to get the best Heating as well as Air Conditioning plan you can afford so that you do not have to spend our money as much to operate it, although I have had the same a/c for a number of years, and back then it was the best AC I could afford. That means I like to have weird ways to use less energy when it comes to our heating and cooling. One thing I have done is I have purchased curtains that are room darkening drapes. They are honestly superb at blocking out the Sun, and now that all of us are approaching warmer weather, I will be sure to help out our a/c by keeping those draperies closed. Another thing I have done to help our air conditioning plan is that I have planted shade trees; When I have shade trees, it naturally stays cooler in the house so the a/c does not have to labor as hard.
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