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Earth Hour: Turn off your lights Saturday, save the world
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Posted on 03/24/2018 5:44:31 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: Sub-Driver
The favorite day for home invasions.

Nothing like making yourself a target.

21 posted on 03/24/2018 5:59:55 AM PDT by Popman (My sin was great, Your love was greater  What could separate us now…)
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To: fruser1

Run the oil through some cheesecloth and added to your oil tank(if you heat with oil) when a delivery is coming to thin it out.

Antifreeze just flows down the street and I hit it with a hose to dilute it so as not to injure pets.


22 posted on 03/24/2018 6:00:56 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: Sub-Driver

The lights are already on in liberal land and no one is home to turn them off....


23 posted on 03/24/2018 6:01:08 AM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: Sub-Driver

11 years of stupid and useless


24 posted on 03/24/2018 6:03:24 AM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: al_c

Ditto. Good night to clean the oven, wash clothes, vacuum, etc.


25 posted on 03/24/2018 6:03:56 AM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Stop with the logic! I always laugh when I think about when I lived in Albuquerque. There city mandated water restrictions. Massive eater restrictions. Everyone was shocked when water prices tripled. This because the bonds for water infrastructure still had to be serviced at lower consumption rates. Lol. Same story with electricity infrastructure.


26 posted on 03/24/2018 6:04:46 AM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: madison10

I guess the people in N Korea have been celebrating this day for quite some time.


27 posted on 03/24/2018 6:05:40 AM PDT by Mouton (The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’m keeping my lights on.


28 posted on 03/24/2018 6:07:49 AM PDT by tob2 (So much to do; so little desire to do it.)
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To: Mouton

Screw the rest of the world, I’m keeping my lights on when/where I need them.


29 posted on 03/24/2018 6:08:54 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Sub-Driver

I’ll turn on every light on the property and burn a tire in the back yard


30 posted on 03/24/2018 6:09:14 AM PDT by Figment
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To: CIB-173RDABN

“But turning off a light is not saving energy. Electricity once created is either used or lost (with few exceptions)”

Sociology degree?


31 posted on 03/24/2018 6:10:18 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z)
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To: Haiku Guy

Do you realize there will be no trash to pick through?


32 posted on 03/24/2018 6:11:29 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z)
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To: Vaquero
Antifreeze just flows down the street and I hit it with a hose to dilute it so as not to injure pets.

I've got some weeds to kill! ;)

33 posted on 03/24/2018 6:11:37 AM PDT by Does so (Let's make the word Mohammedism--adding it to other ISMs...)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’ll turn off my TV for an hour when NBC, CBS and ABC News are on.


34 posted on 03/24/2018 6:12:11 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Sub-Driver

I think I’ll run the electric leaf blower all day and the 1960’s era Waring blender all evening, the one that shoots sparks out the bottom and makes the place smell like ozone. Have a groovy drunken smoothie party with some friends and crank up the tunes.


35 posted on 03/24/2018 6:14:42 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
Turning off the power plants for an hour might save the energy it takes to run the power plant, and turning off a light might save on your electric bill. But turning off a light is not saving energy. Electricity once created is either used or lost

Not quite true. Unused electrical power isn't dumped as there is no real way to dump it. It simply isn't generated. The power of gas or steam turbines is regulated to match the electrical demand on the grid. Minor fluctuations are covered by storing or removing kinetic energy in the turbines and generators for the short time it takes to adjust throttles to loads.

The real problem is that a generating system on line but with little load has a lot of recirculating power that is used to run the generating system (pumps mostly). The energy cost to run a generator with little load is where the waste comes in. Therefore a 1hr cutback in power demand is a wasted gesture.

36 posted on 03/24/2018 6:16:54 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Sub-Driver

Ah, to live life as a blissful simpleton in the liberal bubble where everything is easy and convenience and comfort is guaranteed to all, forever.


37 posted on 03/24/2018 6:17:00 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Sub-Driver

Thank you for reminding me to turn on all my lights.


38 posted on 03/24/2018 6:17:27 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Sub-Driver

Symbolic stupidity. Electricity is essential to modern life. Power plants must plan and build to meet peak demand. This does nothing to reduce peak demand. It is nothing but a feel-good liberal fantasy designed to make people feel guilty over electricity, and to prepare them for leftist restrictions on power usage.


39 posted on 03/24/2018 6:17:50 AM PDT by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: Noumenon

A dash of gas on diesel and used motor oil and woooosh!!!
Have yer buddys over for a beer or two.
Now that’s a great earth evening, yesiree.


40 posted on 03/24/2018 6:19:44 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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