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It's a competition between evleth and martin l'âne

"Martin" a écrit dans le message de news:
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Civil undies request
Civil servants in London are being encouraged to wear thermal
underwear to work in winter in order to cut central heating costs.

But the Environment Agency isn't just encouraging their staff to wrap
up to save taxpayer's cash.

The pollution watchdog hopes turning down temperatures will help turn
down the heat on the planet, which is threatened by global warming.

"In the winter we don't turn up the heating and encourage our
employees to wear thermal underwear at work because it is heaps better
for them and means that we don't have to spend so much on heating the
building and wrecking the planet," said the agency's chief executive
Baroness Young.

Her comments came at the launch of an Environment Agency campaign to
promote World Environment Day.

Baroness Young also has no qualms about telling Americans how to dress
when it comes to cutting pollution.

"I hate going to America where you have got to put clothes on to go
into the buildings, rather than take clothes off," she said.

"If we got the Americans to turn down their air conditioning by four
degrees, we would probably reduce the reliance on Middle Eastern oil
that's caused quite a lot of the problems that we are facing on global
security terms."
06 June 2005
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Martin

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:25:47 +0200, "Runge"
wrote:

It's a competition between evleth and martin l'âne

And since you respond to both, you post twice as much off-topic stuff
as either of them.
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Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:23:21 +0200, Martin wrote:

Civil undies request
Civil servants in London are being encouraged to wear thermal
underwear to work in winter in order to cut central heating costs.

In the old Rathaus in Linz, the building had little or no central heating
until the rebuild about 8 years ago, and each office had a small solid fuel
burner. During the winter they were issued one bucket of coal per day. If
it ran out, tough.

--
Tim C.

Tim Challenger wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:23:21 +0200, Martin wrote:

Civil undies request
Civil servants in London are being encouraged to wear thermal
underwear to work in winter in order to cut central heating costs.

In the old Rathaus in Linz, the building had little or no central heating
until the rebuild about 8 years ago, and each office had a small solid fuel
burner. During the winter they were issued one bucket of coal per day. If
it ran out, tough.

--
Tim C.

everybody here leaves their PC on overnight, what a waste of
electricity.

Martin wrote:


Baroness Young also has no qualms about telling Americans how to dress
when it comes to cutting pollution.

"I hate going to America where you have got to put clothes on to go
into the buildings, rather than take clothes off," she said.

"If we got the Americans to turn down their air conditioning by four
degrees, we would probably reduce the reliance on Middle Eastern oil
that's caused quite a lot of the problems that we are facing on global
security terms."
06 June 2005

The Americans got themselves to raise the AC temp and lower the heating
settings during a fuel crisis about 30 years ago. We did this all by
ourselves without having a distant kingdom tell us how. The heat was set
at about 68F. That would be about 4F degrees too warm for a Brit but 4F
too cold for an American. There were grumblings and grumblings.
John Bermont
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