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2008-02-21 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Bobby 2008-02-21 06:47|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Wonder if they'll turn off their heaters too?

Posted by ed 2008-02-21 08:00|| 2008-02-21 08:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Just a quirky question... what if the Federal government just did this kind of thing itself with all of its offices and all of its vehicles. (Well, discounting the military. I don't want our guys having to go around in up-armored Priuses.)

How much would that save? I know they have a lot of offices and a lot of vehicles.

Posted by eLarson 2008-02-21 08:10|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2008-02-21 08:10|| Front Page Top

#3 If you think Chicago's Northside is dangerous now, wait till they turn the lights off around Cabrini-Green for an hour.

Posted by DepotGuy 2008-02-21 09:29|| 2008-02-21 09:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Wow, lights off for one hour! We've saved the planet! I feel so good about myself!

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-21 09:40|| 2008-02-21 09:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Is there a Nobel Prize for pointless, feel-good gestures?

Posted by SteveS 2008-02-21 09:59|| 2008-02-21 09:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Dammit! There should be!!

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-21 10:10|| 2008-02-21 10:10|| Front Page Top

#7 So, when Global Cooling becomes a reality (as it will per the solar scientists who use observation and science instead of politics and voodoo of the Global Arming people)...

Can we depend on them to dig out their old incandescent bulbs and turn every light in the house on for an hour?

Posted by OldSpook 2008-02-21 10:16|| 2008-02-21 10:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Oldspook, they'll be claiming that lightbulbs cause global cooling then.

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2008-02-21 10:27|| 2008-02-21 10:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Wonder if these "feel-good" folks will alter the power consumption enough to unbalance and destabilize the power distribution system? During the Gray Davis years of Rolling Blackouts in California, San Diego had to be blacked out in spite of having surplus power to "balance the grid". However, their symbology is more telling than they think. The hallmark of civilization has been the ability to light up the cities and drive back darkness and ignorance. Global Warming fanatics are intent on bringing back both.

Posted by RWV 2008-02-21 10:31|| 2008-02-21 10:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Just when I begin to think these Idiots can't sink any lower, they prove me wrong.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-02-21 13:08|| 2008-02-21 13:08|| Front Page Top

#11 24 cities to turn off lights for global warming

turn off lights ~~for~~ "ON" global warming. There that's fixed. Just goes to prove that idiocy can be contagious.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-02-21 13:19|| 2008-02-21 13:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Hey! Power for only 4 hours a day in Baghdad is good for the planet! We've put them ahead of the curve, AlGore should be proud.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-02-21 13:25|| 2008-02-21 13:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Five minutes is a nuisance to the electric company.
An hour is a boon to the criminal trade.

Posted by Darrell 2008-02-21 15:36|| 2008-02-21 15:36|| Front Page Top

#14 Just look at a night time satellite photograph of North Korea. Now, those people are living a low-carbon footprint lifestyle! Of course, they are starving and freezing to death, but that is a small price to pay to appease the Goreacle.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-02-21 16:25|| 2008-02-21 16:25|| Front Page Top

#15 Better Headine,

"BRAINS OFF FOR GLOBAL WARMING"

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-02-21 19:56|| 2008-02-21 19:56|| Front Page Top

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