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Neither of the simple solutions given will work in all situations. Cars still get super cold if the temperature is say 0 to -5 Celsius (32 or ~22.5 Fahrenheit).

Be in a car with that temperature for an hour+. It’ll be awful for most people.

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Maybe a car isn't a house? I mean I understand that it's not practical all the time but your polluting the air by sitting inside your car instead of being in a building with an electric and optimized HVAC.

While many people could reasonably make the effort to enter a building instead. At least as many, cannot due to their economic circumstances.

I wasn’t thinking of a car as a house substitute. However, not everyone has a safe, warm physical residential home, of any kind, to go to.

Heated clothing is a thing

I kinda get where this discussion is coming from but to me it sounds extremely weird to not use the amenities you've bought. Kinda like walking around with a jacket and a hat at home when you can easily pay your heating bill.

I'd say thats the approach I've been taking (ie using a jacket and hat) one winter I used an electric blanket, went to work a bit early during the winter, my room managed to stay above 3C, boy was I glad and enjoyed the warm up of spring so much more...this winter I went to Egypt... my point not having makes you appreciate things differently and if you do it by choice there's less stress...in Egypt I chose to live as cheaply as possible, hitching, learning the language, eating street food, sleeping in doorms...I find you appreciate people , time more... as for the above question it's about CO2 poisoning your surroundings, it's why we finally got rid of lead from petrol, asbestos, smoking on airplanes and hopefully one day CocaCola plastic bottles...

That's nice. For me essentially not spending money on quality of life/fun makes my motivation to work disappear since I stop seeing a relation between quality of life and work put in.

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