Photo-fish wrote: Yes. heaven forbid we should all try to lower our utility bills and save a bit of $$.
The idea Fred, is to turn off their "non-essential" lights not every light.
But don't miss an opportunity to turn this into a partisan issue (Again)
I understand this is just an hour, but it should raise awareness to energy conservation.
So sorry to have offended you PF. Didn't realize you were so thin skinned and couldn't take a joke. If you want to sit in the dark, I will stop picking on you.
BTW, we have solar power and only resort to the generator when the sun doesn't cut it. So I might even be more earth friendly than you.
You didn't offend me Fred. I work with dumb people every day that think they are funny.
OmniScience wrote:
I'd love to see municipalities really make an effort to reduce unnecessary outdoor lighting. Then maybe folks in the city would actually be able to see the stars for a change.
Well being a city dweller myself, I know from experience that criminals love the dark. My car lot was constantly robbed until I put up some big lights to chase away the roaches. I also notice that you mountain folk like to leave outdoor lights on, you just don't have the density or the same kind of roach population to justify more.
That's city people living in the mountains, Rick, I use motion lights outside. And I subscribe to the same philosophy my old neighbor in Bailey had, "if someone wants to prowl around my place at night, I'm not going to light the way for them, hopefully they'll fall and hurt themselves".
But, I do understand the city mentality and the crime (and noise, pollution, light pollution, congestion, traffic, vandalism, etc) which is why I don't live in a city, and God willing, never will again.
OmniScience wrote:
I'd love to see municipalities really make an effort to reduce unnecessary outdoor lighting. Then maybe folks in the city would actually be able to see the stars for a change.
Well being a city dweller myself, I know from experience that criminals love the dark. My car lot was constantly robbed until I put up some big lights to chase away the roaches. I also notice that you mountain folk like to leave outdoor lights on, you just don't have the density or the same kind of roach population to justify more.
That's city people living in the mountains, Rick, I use motion lights outside. And I subscribe to the same philosophy my old neighbor in Bailey had, "if someone wants to prowl around my place at night, I'm not going to light the way for them, hopefully they'll fall and hurt themselves".
But, I do understand the city mentality and the crime (and noise, pollution, light pollution, congestion, traffic, vandalism, etc) which is why I don't live in a city, and God willing, never will again.
Oh I hear ya man, I was raised up there until I was 18 and thought more city action would be more exciting... then I got stuck. Back in the 70s up on Shadow Mt Rd we never locked our doors and the keys were always left in the pickup. My dad kept the power usage to a minimum except for the horses, they had heaters in their water troughs.
I still want to move back, but not to Conifer anymore... way too many people.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
