XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   My rental, a Toyota Yaris, has a simple heater/AC and sometimes, with   
   the fan on 1, the lowest speed other than "stop", and the temp on   
   coldest, it's too cold.   
      
   The solution seems to be to move the temp towards warm, but when I do   
   that, am I not using gasoline to run the AC and then mixing warm air   
   with the cold air, that I just paid to create?   If saving money were my   
   only consideration, shouldn't I keep the AC all the way on cold, but   
   turn it on and off, like a furnace or AC unit at home works?  (Yes, of   
   course the car is much smaller than the house and so I'd alternate   
   between being too hot and being too cold, but this is an academic   
   question.)   
      
   What about my own car, that has an automatic setting which it says will   
   keep the temp at whatever temp I set it to?  70, 68, 72, whatever. Does   
   this work differently from the simple AC in the paragraph above? Doesn't   
   it also mix warm air heated by engine coolant with cold air cooled by   
   the AC, using extra gasoline?   
      
   Isn't the only way to save money to set the AC all the way to the   
   coldest, and turn it off if it gets too cold?   
      
      
   BTW, when I was here 53 years ago, I dont' remember there ever being a   
   hot day.  I was on foot, carrying a rucksack**, hitchhiking or walking   
   around town.   
      
   **A strange backpack with a metal frame but one unlike any other one   
   I've seen before or since. The frame was not two parallel sides, but   
   sort of a figure 8 (but not that narrow in the middle. I might still   
   have it in the basement, but the  cloth is probably no good anymore.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)