Posted on 03/30/2008 11:02:27 AM PDT by Libloather
How did your Earth Hour go?
My husband and I enjoyed it so much, we want to try to do it weekly.
Oh, also, my local power company provides several unscheduled “earth hours” each year, so I didn’t feel compelled to participate in one that was scheduled.
“Earth Hour” happened during the 2nd half of the No. Carolina vs. Louisville NCAA tourney game last night (here on the W. coast, at least). Did the lib nutters want us to turn our TVs off too?
When?
Spinal Tap rules!
I walked the dog a half mile down the road so she could take a dump in my liberal neighbor’s front yard.
Did everuthing humanly possible to increase my “carbon footprint” by a factor of !
What a joke. Most of the commercial buildings that were darkened, then re-lit an hour later use ballast powered lights ( fluorescent, metal halide, etc) and they will run many hours on the power needed to start them. So the end result of their feelgood deed was to spike the energy grid.
On a related note, just what technical qualifications does A. Gore (if you don’t believe me, you think the world is flat) have to make him an expert on global warming?
Symbolism over substance.
And while the left wingnuts turned off one **GASP** incandescent light bulb, just how many of them turned off the gas/electric heat as well? (I'll just assume - not too many!)
I cancelled my plans to move into the camper and start the 3.5KW generator, and instead, opened the garage door and finished all the welding I had to do for the new wrought iron railings for the front stairs. It’s only a 230 Amp welder, running on a low setting for 5/32 6013, but I tried and tried.
The future Mrs. Loyalist participated willingly. I participated unwillingly, the same day I shelled out for an engagement ring. The sacrifices for love....
1 computer
2 xboxes
1 gamecube
3 TVs
1 oven
1 crock pot
3 indoor lights
1 outdoor light
1 washer
1 dryer
1 phone
1 humidifier
2 purifiers
Had ‘em all on until about midnight. Went to sleep stuffed, happy, and with fresh and clean clothes.
I was up until 2am doing the exact same things. AND vacuumed the house!
I went outside and cut down a tree.
Well, I vaccuumed, too. But I didn’t count that as it’s a two-minute job.
I love my Dyson vaccuum.
Since I really screwed up my first Earth Day, I'll just have to turn off my television during Altoast2000's appearance on tonight's Sixty Minutes!
Mine was very “illuminating.” I actually forgot about it, but went I went to google something about 8:30, it reminded me. So I looked outside, across and up and down the street to see if anyone was observing Earth Hour. We must live in an ecologically ignorant neighborhood, LOL, everybody had their lights on.
I spent an hour forming a gigantic S.O.S. sign in Christmas lights in a nearby field.
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