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To: maine-iac7
Hmmm...according to your US map, that one guy in North Dakota is REALLY doing his part to light up the sky.

This whole Earth Hour thing is just STUPID. I bet if you counted in the costs of turning off, then turning power back on that it takes MORE energy to get things "warmed up" again.

It reminds me of when NBC turned off their lights during some football broadcast. Bob Costas and the other guys just sat there in the dim studio, looking like fools. Studio lights don't just come right back on, they take a long time to come back to their full brightness. Plus it wears out electrical devices faster when you keep doing this.

90 posted on 03/31/2012 7:59:40 PM PDT by boop (I hate hippies and dopeheads. Just hate them. ...Ernest Borgnine)
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To: boop

“It reminds me of when NBC turned off their lights during some football broadcast. Bob Costas and the other guys just sat there in the dim studio”

I almost forgot about that holier-than-thou moment.

Yet, they were all so upset this year when the lights went out on their own at that playoff game....


98 posted on 03/31/2012 8:31:58 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: boop

yup ;o)


115 posted on 04/01/2012 7:38:09 AM PDT by maine-iac7 ("If you bought it - a truck brought it" - and because of the price of gas/it costs more.)
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