He says air conditioning is a waste of money.

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I have a friend in the next block over, who lives next door to an elderly fellow. He’s friendly to everyone but is obsessed about the cost of utilities. He does everything he can to save on his electric bill-who doesn’t? But he sits in the dark, tries to read with a candle, and won’t even run a fan in this heat wave. The heat index was 107 yesterday afternoon and 106 today. Another neighbor found him passed out cold on his patio. He went outside to sit in the heat. Paramedics were called and he is at the hospital now. This is just carrying things too far. He isn’t poor. Has a nice home and a new truck. But he simply refuses to run the AC and he doesn’t turn his heat on in the winter until,as he says, he can see his breath inside!! So foolish…I hope someone at the hospital can convince him that heat can kill you!