[MplsSteve]

I hate to sound like a Green Party member - but this idea isn’t all that bad.

Let’s admit it. We do waste a boatload of energy by leaving lights on when and where they don’t need to be. You should see my office after everyone leaves for the night. Desk lamps are still on, calculators are still on and a number of office lightas remain on all night.

It’s wasteful.

As Republicans and conservatives, we should be interested in conserving energy and providing a better place for our children and future generations.

Not to mention that lower electricity use results in lower electricity bills. And the less I have to pay, the better it is for me!

Though we don’t need to go to the extremes that the enviro-whackos are going, it certainly wouldn’t hurt to be more cognizant of what we are wasting in terms of energy.

[ctdonath2]

Good stewardship is a good idea. Yes, don’t waste.

Thing is, most of these self-described “environmentalists” are among the most earth-harming, as their genuflections are only possible because they live at the top of the most luxurious and wasteful culture (don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying my part therein) ergo something as petty as turning off the lights for an hour on one day strikes them as sacrifice.

Want to make a difference? turn the lights _on_ for only an hour a day - every day.

[sportutegrl]

Speaking of wasting energy, my mother, who lives alone in a huge house, is convinced that she has to leave all the ceiling fans on to cool the air. Even when she goes out. When I come to visit, every fan in every room is spinning. I go into a back bedroom that no one has been in days, and there is the fan spinning around.

She has a fan over the dining room table, (to cool the food--ugh), but no one has ever to my knowledge, put a ceiling fan where it would make the most sense to me: in the kitchen.

[scan59]

Not to mention that lower electricity use results in lower electricity bills. And the less I have to pay, the better it is for me!

I agree. That's why capitalism is the key to finding better energy sources and more efficient devices. Not the government regulations the leftists want.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Most all of your points are worthy. However, I am taking exception with your opening opinion. This particular idea is ALL bad.

These are communists in conservationist garb: watermelons. That means they are power hungerers and freedom haters to start, and they hate humanity at heart. They seek every opportunity to increase state power at the expense of individuals.

They NEED large participation in symbolic acts like this so that weak politicians will feel there is a much larger body of people who don't mind being told what to do.

Here's another opinion from Canada's National Post. It reveals a well-financed event. This event is aimed at luring fools to reign down upon themselves more restrictions. Here's their counter-measure solution:

I would suggest that the biggest current threat to our planet is not either climate change or the financial "crisis," but the mindless conformist tendency to support ideas such as Earth Hour, which are aimed at the levers of both electrical and political power.

If you love civilization, freedom and the use of reason, keep on all the lights you need on Saturday. Take Back the Night.

I surely hope I don't blow my circuit breakers. I intend on raising ever shade in my house and lighting every bulb. I am turning on every flood light. I even dug out my old movie light bar; it attaches to a tripod. Four more flood lamps aimed at the sky are going on for one hour tomorrow night.

I'll send the world a message tomorrow night alright! Join me.