[castlebrew]

let 'em freeze in the dark!

[castlebrew]

Tip o’ the hat to Drudge!

[I see my hands]

"equivalent to taking nearly 49,000 cars off the road for 60 minutes"

What is that in Schrute Bucks?

[BerniesFriend]

Somewhere Dandy Don Meredith is crooning..

[Wheee The People]

Oh good grief...with Arnold in charge the lights are likely to go dark no matter what.

[acapesket]

As a former Californian, I can only recognize my former peers by their big honkin’SUV’s.. The legislature appears to be run by those who aspire to Valley Girl IQ standards.
California is done, stick a fork in it.

[Mr J]

A golden opportunity for the dregs of LA to catch up on their looting, vandalism and general mayhem?

[anymouse]

the proposed effort asks Angelenos to simultaneously go dark between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, as San Franciscans do the same.

Crime time.

Stupidity reigns supreme in the land of fruits, nuts and flakes.

[telebob]

10% decrease in electrical use, 100% increase in crime. Good thinking, libs!

[anymouse]

the proposed effort asks Angelenos to simultaneously go dark between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, as San Franciscans do the same.

Crime time. Stupidity reigns supreme in the land of fruits, nuts and flakes.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Sorta makes one want to turn on every single light, doesn’t it?

[Fitzcarraldo]

watch the number of candle-caused house fires shoot up

[ThomasThomas]

let 'em freeze in the dark!

This is California were talking about, while mid to low 60’s is considered chilly for us we can over come this cold wave by lighting the fireplace. We also have a nuclear power plant down in San Onofre and as you all know this causes us to glow in the dark.

I support of this might I also suggest that the LA city council also hold their breath for the same hour,

[webstersII]

Reminds me of a friend from India.

He says that everyone just got used to the fact that the power was off for a couple of hours every day in many places in India because the grid was so overstressed.

[CindyDawg]

I’ve heard that it isn’t good to sit in front of a computer , in the dark.

[GOP Poet]

I’ll make a point to turn them all on!!! I usually turn off lights etc when I leave the room. However for this one night I will go against what my Mom has raised me to do and celebrate light!! :-)

[norton]

"At the original event in Sydney, Australia, in March, 2.2 million people cut the lights, causing a 10% drop in electricity use. The so-called Earth Hour reduced 25 tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent to taking nearly 49,000 cars off the road for 60 minutes, organizers said...."

And what organizers did not say was that millions of BIC lighters being waved overhead for an hour while the populace sang folk songs and lapsed into zen-like feelings of well being blew off the savings ... and then some.

[Figment]

“At the original event in Sydney, Australia, in March, 2.2 million people cut the lights, causing a 10% drop in electricity use”

I wonder what happened when those 2.2 million turned their lights back on at roughly the same time? That had to cause some outages

[Nick Danger]

The so-called Earth Hour reduced 25 tons of carbon dioxide

Is there an electricity-generation maven in the house? My hunch is that this "25,000 tons" is a bunch of nonsense that comes from multiplying how much coal it takes to generate a kilowatt-hour, times the number of hippies, or something like that. Here's my question: is any less coal actually burned, or do the generators (and whatever drives them) keep hummin' along at a predetermined rate, regardless of any moment-to-moment fluctuations in demand?

[ElkGroveDan]

Thanks or the heads up. During that time I’m going to turn on all my lights, crank the AC down to 65 and take the Excursion out for a drive in first gear — towing the boat.

[HIDEK6]

What’s next? Grand Silence?