we have a guy who sells greenhouse gases for a living attempting to take the high road. fraudcurrents is an air conditioner seller. Air conditioners use about 5% of all the electricity produced in the U.S. The annual cost is more than $11 billion to homeowners. 100 million tons of carbon dioxide are released into the air each year due to air conditioning in the U.S. the new your times said that withing a decade or 2 air conditioners will contribute to 25% of man made global warming because their coolant is 2000 times more powerful that co2.