M.O.A. I

As I have mentioned several times, I have lived in various places in my life both in and out of the country. I have seen different levels of consumption that I ascribe to different places, and within that context there are different thoughts on energy use.
The US, far and away, has had greater energy use. I would get yelled at in Italy if I didn't turn the light off each time I left a room, and in Argentina the apartment was unlit until about 6 pm, even though it was late winter, early spring. It's not these countries are any more environmentally conscious ( I don't think there is even real thought about "being Green"), it's just that it costs so much that they literally can't afford to keep the lights on. But I'm not here to talk about lights, I'm here to talk about Air.
Air conditioning. It is not a novel thought. But it doesn't exist in as many places as you'd expect. And by that, I mean, I'd expect it here in the land of freedom and artificially propelled air.

In the South, we wouldn't be able to live without AC and one of the greatest feelings in the summer time is coming from the outside sweating profusely and then being rocked by the wave of cool/house-circulated air as you grab something the drink and sit down on the South.

In Italy, my air conditioning meant opening the balcony door at night. What was I was also opening the door to were bugs, and the blood stains of smashed mosquitoes on the walls, and the swollen eye-lids where I was bitten at night still haunt my memories.

In Argentina it was literally too cool for cool(ness) and so it wasn't a problem.

But here in Maine, in the good ole US of A(ir conditioning) there is no AC. We have remedied the problem slightly with box fans, and I understand that it rarely gets above 90, with 85 being a "scorcher," but you are missing out people.

And clearly, on the days that it's got and you're tired, you need something that'd counter-balance the sleep inducing sweat and glisten.

AC is what makes summer summer, along with poison ivy, hot stearing wheels, and bad hair from driving with the windows down.

So I say this in honor of all colliding molecules. Let's get some M(ovement) O(f) A(ir).