AC or No AC

Quite often, I see members on here and other forums wanting to take the AC stuff off of their cars. To most of them, Why?. I understand if you have a strip car or a radical street car, but I am referring to the average nice drivers that people actually drive places. I always look to see where the members are from, a lot of these people live in cooler places than I'm from.
And I understand that some people can't afford to replace all of the missing stuff. I live in Nebraska, we have not that terrible hot but humid hot. So AC is a big plus. Then anybody that drives their cars on the Interstate with the windows down at 75-80 will be shot in a couple hours from the hot wind. If you have AC, you WILL drive your car more when it's hot out. If you have a woman in your life, she will go along more often with AC.
This goes way back, when I had my first Mopar-68 Dart GTS 340-4 speed, no AC. We drank a lot of beer back then to stay cool. One Sunday afternoon in late July, we all met in my small hometown. A friend pulled up in his new car-a 70 Chevy Malibu, 350, auto and AC he cracked the window about 2 inches, said it sure is cool in here. I always remember that. I guess everyone has their own reason or opinion on this.