A different meaning to thermostatic politics: Ohio Republican Rep. Roy Klopfenstein (R., Haviland) wants to allow utilities in Ohio to remotely set Ohioans' thermostats in their houses.
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It’s voluntary. Also, it exists in other places without problems. Legislation is needed to allow it.
aug 31, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely the fuck not.
aug 31, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
"Honey, our Nest™ got cuckoo-ed."
aug 31, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Big government eh?
sep 1, 2025, 10:51 am • 0 0 • view
From the party of “they’re banning gas stoves.” Interesting…
aug 31, 2025, 2:04 pm • 4 0 • view
Ohio where intelligence has gone to die
aug 31, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Would this apply to rich people, too, or just the rest of us?
aug 31, 2025, 2:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Sooooo much freedom!
aug 31, 2025, 1:13 pm • 7 0 • view
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
aug 31, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Eat shit Ohio Republicans I would go without heat if you try to control anything in my house. Fuck them!
aug 31, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
People should so some research before automatically reacting. Voluntary demand response programs are an important tool to manage peak energy use and can reduce the need for new power plants.
aug 31, 2025, 1:16 pm • 12 0 • view
Huge power saver and great way to avoid targeted brown outs
aug 31, 2025, 2:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure, voluntary, but not automatically done by the utility with no choice
aug 31, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
It's the hypocrisy more than anything.
aug 31, 2025, 1:40 pm • 8 0 • view
but low-flow shower heads and toilets are an affront to our FREEDOMS!
aug 31, 2025, 1:27 pm • 24 0 • view
The smallest of government
aug 31, 2025, 2:07 pm • 2 0 • view
So called Libertarians have been deafly quit since January…total cowards.
aug 31, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Obviously, the point is valid here. Legislators should also introduce legislation to curtail large businesses and throttle AI consumption if they want to control energy prices.
aug 31, 2025, 1:26 pm • 28 1 • view
🎯 This feels like recycling all over again: blame consumers, not greedy corporations who are incentivized to destroy the environment w/o consequences. fwiw, "libs" are already recycling like crazy & our thermostats are set to the most environmentally sustainable levels.
aug 31, 2025, 5:09 pm • 3 0 • view
I don’t have a problem with consumers opting in to programs that throttle their AC during peak usage. I definitely have a problem with the narrative that residential energy use is the main issue or that the onus is on homeowners to scale back consumption. www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...
aug 31, 2025, 5:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Republican Socialism!
aug 31, 2025, 1:56 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm old enough to remember this being a conservative talking point *against* smart meters.
aug 31, 2025, 1:30 pm • 11 1 • view
It is like Biden's infrastructure boost. Republicans vote against it, then take credit for it. But reversed. Republican's initiate the stupid plan, but will blame it on Demon-crats.
aug 31, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
I would replace my wifi thermostat with a dump thermostat.
aug 31, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Um, my utility company already does. I have a smart thermostat that shifts the temp at peak usage times and I can’t figure out how to shut off the “feature”. I’ll be working in my office and realized that I’m sweating, check the temp and it’s been reset to 78 from where I set it at 74.
aug 31, 2025, 1:26 pm • 3 1 • view
That would be expensive to implement. A smart thermostat for every zone plus professional installation?
aug 31, 2025, 1:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Our program with Ameren in Missouri has been in place for years. They sent us a free Nest thermostat & we installed it ourselves.
aug 31, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
That's one thermostat for one zone where you had the C wire. Some homes have a zone for every room, a combination of heat pumps and boilers, and no C wires at existing thermostats. Enabling smart controls everywhere can get expensive real quick.
sep 1, 2025, 12:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Dammit! Communist Obama-Biden Dems are at it again!#@!! (Oh ...... wait)
aug 31, 2025, 1:56 pm • 1 0 • view
The rich will be allowed to ‘opt out’ I’m sure.
aug 31, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Sounds like people would have to sign up for the Big Brother program with financial incentives. Bet a nickel that residents’ thermostats would be adjusted first (especially poor neighborhoods), so that big data centers etc. for bitcoin, AI etc. run by the wealthy tech bros would get power priority.
aug 31, 2025, 1:22 pm • 16 4 • view
They already are causing water shortages in west Texas. Absolutely what’s happening.
aug 31, 2025, 1:28 pm • 12 1 • view
Big Brother knows best! 🙃
aug 31, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Talk about government control. Why does Ohio keep re-electing Jim Jordan. What do they expect?
aug 31, 2025, 3:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Sure, bring government further into our homes. They all lie about everything.
aug 31, 2025, 1:18 pm • 2 0 • view
* Government's robots. What could possibly go wrong?
aug 31, 2025, 5:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Big Brother in Ohio.
aug 31, 2025, 1:16 pm • 2 1 • view
But wait - aren’t republicans always screaming about government overreach? Or is that just bullsh**? 🥴🥴
aug 31, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
While the administration cuts energy tax credits, the Energy Star program, and renewable energy projects?
aug 31, 2025, 1:35 pm • 3 1 • view
So much for limited govt.
aug 31, 2025, 1:16 pm • 3 1 • view
I had signed up for one of these in a previous home. The final time they did it, it was 98 that day (this is NC) and they turned off our AC as we were cooking dinner - about 5:30. The house got to 87 before they turned it back on.
aug 31, 2025, 1:48 pm • 2 0 • view
As one of my friends who is prone to colorful expressions would say, this would go over about as well as a fart in church.
aug 31, 2025, 3:34 pm • 0 0 • view
The party of small government, ladies and gentlemen!
aug 31, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
We had this in CA when I lived there, except you had to opt in & it was controlled by power company, not the state. Used if we had heat alert & they avoided rolling blackouts
aug 31, 2025, 1:31 pm • 3 0 • view
Damn. How’s that for senseless big government overreach ?
sep 2, 2025, 3:42 am • 0 0 • view
We’ve had this for years with Ameren in Missouri. It’s part of their demand response program (both residential and commercial) & is a great way to reduce peak energy loads. It’s totally voluntary. You can opt in or opt out at any time.
aug 31, 2025, 1:54 pm • 1 0 • view
so much freedom....
aug 31, 2025, 7:38 pm • 0 0 • view
So no more utility bills then?
aug 31, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
🔖
aug 31, 2025, 9:13 pm • 0 0 • view
And Amazon will start seeing by-pass devices!
sep 1, 2025, 4:32 am • 0 0 • view
The party of “small government?”
aug 31, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
This is INSANE
aug 31, 2025, 1:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Fuck that
aug 31, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
OMG!
aug 31, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Klopfenstein though not taking steps to limit the huge use of power by data centers, eh?
aug 31, 2025, 1:36 pm • 3 1 • view
FFS, seriously?!
aug 31, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
All the more reason not to have one of those "bugged devices" in your home.
aug 31, 2025, 1:17 pm • 16 0 • view
Not a fan of Siri or Alexa, but smart thermostats are great. You don’t have to connect them to anything else.
aug 31, 2025, 1:56 pm • 3 0 • view
Same here. I've had remote control thermostats for over a decade, and signed up for National Grid to override them and balance the load on hot afternoons. Opt-in and a $40 incentive are fine with me.
aug 31, 2025, 2:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Why? So giant data centers an have all the electricity they want?
aug 31, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Little government and no deep state.
aug 31, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Southern California Edison already has this program. We signed up, got a small credit, and roasted every summer until I cancelled it. They claimed the temp would changed for only 10 minutes, which was false. Now I have solar with two batteries, so I make my own power. Screw the power company.
aug 31, 2025, 1:57 pm • 8 0 • view
I’m in SoCall too. I refused to opt in and whenever my Nest auto adjusts my settings I go into the app and put my schedule back.
aug 31, 2025, 3:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Good for you!
aug 31, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
We already have this in areas in Nebraska but it is voluntary and you actually get a small credit.
aug 31, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely not!
aug 31, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 0 • view
😱
aug 31, 2025, 3:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow, the Republican agenda has dramatically changed from the one I remember! Centralized government control sounds like a different economic base than " less government "? Am I missing something?
aug 31, 2025, 1:35 pm • 6 2 • view
If a Dem proposed this, we would be hearing about how all these communists are trying to control your consumption habits. But since Republicans have been captured by big tech and the crypto industry, they now want all energy flowing to data centers, instead of the public. That's corporate capture.
aug 31, 2025, 2:14 pm • 9 1 • view
Wow, this is invasive.
sep 1, 2025, 1:09 am • 0 0 • view
Controlling every woman’s body is not enough? Gotta now interfere with their temperature?
aug 31, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
“Daddy’s home! And who set the thermostat so high?!?”
aug 31, 2025, 1:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Small government...
aug 31, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
You need a smart thermostat for your local utility to control your home temperature settings. I’m keeping my ancient circa 1974 analog thermostat
aug 31, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Uh, no.
aug 31, 2025, 1:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, because Ohio utilities have earned so much of our trust. If their quarterly profits were down they would literally turn up the heat.
aug 31, 2025, 3:39 pm • 1 0 • view
A far better idea would be to allow we the people to control the workplace thermostats of all politicians
aug 31, 2025, 3:29 pm • 6 0 • view
So they can fire up more AI centers??
aug 31, 2025, 3:27 pm • 3 0 • view
The party that believes in small government at work.
aug 31, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe our utility in RI already has this voluntary option. You agree to allow them to tweak your thermostat remotely, so that for example on hot days when usage is very high, and you left home with your AC set at 70, they can go in and bump it up to 75 to reduce the load on the grid.
aug 31, 2025, 1:19 pm • 3 1 • view
The fact they know you’re not at home suggests the utility company is tracking more than just your thermostat setting.
aug 31, 2025, 1:47 pm • 2 0 • view
The poster didn't say that.
aug 31, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view