Freedom and liberty = prosperity.
EPA and Global dictates = hardship.
All those electrons used up, wasted! And then disposing of them, another problem.
Burying them contaminates landfills.
I’m so embarrassed to say I unnecessarily used so many electrons this Christmas.
Should have packaged them up and sent them to a needy country.
Next year.....
In other news a recent study has revealed that America ranks an abysmal last place in the critical category of envying other countries.
People at Slate, Salon, MSNBC, HuffPo, WaPo, et all need to join the The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (vhemt.org), then activate their membership.
Excess capacity, Elliott.
Me shutting off my Christmas lights does not translate into a village in Africa suddenly having power.
What a maroon.
Semi related note:
A few years back I was looking for a wireless assignable multi-button mouse to replace the standard 2 button/wheel corded mouse for use in my music editing programs. So I posed the inquiry on one of the music production boards I read.
Being music related, there are of course libs everywhere. One went into absolute screaming hysterics about how my battery use would kill the planet and that I had no place there (the board) because I was not a fellow green traveler.
The one AA battery I would go through every 6 months in such a device of Anti-Gaian evil was the difference between environmental apocalypse and the survival of Earth.
Liberals, ALL liberals, regardless of whose son, daughter, father, mother etc, belong in cages. They are not sane, they are a danger to the existence of western civilization and they should be treated as one does any other deadly animal, reptile, virus or insect.
What ever.
We also have more toilets then all those Country’s so how about a medal for that?
Where is the “Bah Humbug” alert?
I tire of the snarky and condescending tone of most writers; and this one is a typical example.
Just think how many people could be fed for a year for the cost of just one of Obama’s vacations.
The power company generates electricity...they offer the electricity for sale...I buy the electricity...I use the electricity.
The generators spin and generate the electricity whether I buy/use it, or not.
I guess I should cover the little holes in all my outlets so the electricity won’t leak out all over the floor.
The four room house I grew up in had a wire dangling from the center of the ceiling in each room, each powering a 40 watt bulb...two, screw-in glass fuses carried the whole house.
We “evolved” from those days, the emerging countries can “evolve” too.
The USA can’t continue to be the Santa Claus and policemen for the entire world.
And the implication is that by using more than “our fair share,” we’re somehow depriving less advanced countries of ... something. We generate the electricity. We pay for it. But it’s somehow wrong for us to use it because someone somewhere has less.
Halloween is more lit with lights up in my community than Christmas. Where’s the outrage?
and gladly so....
Slate Lies.
Slate really sucks.
The rest of the world needs to learn to be more successful and less whiney.
Here's a flash for you bucko, if you feel that way...turn your lights off.
What is actually happening however is that the United States is a very blessed nation.
And guess what?
One of the principle reasons we are so blessed is because a majority of people in this country still not only celebrate Christmas, but because they also try and incorporate the principles that it represents into their life.
Deep down inside THAT is what really drives the progressives and liberal left crazy, and leads them to spread propaganda and false narratives (ie. lies) like this which creates useful idiots like this person who believe and then spout this nonsense.
Elloitt move to the DPRK
The number the article uses is 6.6 billion kilowatt-hours, or about 22 kilowatt-hours per person. That is $2.42 for each of us that has the libs’ panties in a knot.
I was watching Nixon on TV when he banned Xmas lights. Folks just put them up anyway.