What did you do for "Earth Hour"?

[spearmaster]

Myself I turned everything electrical on, lights, TV, radios etc,. I even made a couple trips to town in my old 12 mpg Ford truck for no particular reason. I wish I would have some Christmas lights to light my house up so bright that would make Clark Griswald envious. :)

[WreckedParty]

Eh i just went about my day as usual, learned some programming and turned up some metal :)

[BravoBuzzard]

I was at an auction at my son's school. My wife bought an OSU football signed by Mike Gundy (I'm 40! I'm a man!) for $60, and bought my sister in law an OU football signed by Bob Stoops for $250. I like OSU more than OU even though OU is a better football team.

Oh, was Earth hour tonight? All my lights were off in the house because we were not home.

[Dem]

Turned off all our appliances and went for a walk with my family. Was a beautiful night.

[NightTrain]

Cranked up extra lights...

hellyeah!

[AvgGuyIA]

I tried to destroy as much of the environment as I could during that hour.

[midatlantic]

Myself I turned everything electrical on, lights, TV, radios etc,. I even made a couple trips to town in my old 12 mpg Ford truck for no particular reason. I wish I would have some Christmas lights to light my house up so bright that would make Clark Griswald envious. :)

I would have done those things....waste energy.....if I knew about it in advance. I heard about it after the fact.....UGH

[avergbear]

Turned off all our appliances and went for a walk with my family. Was a beautiful night.

I hope you don’t get salmonella from the spoiled meat in the freg.

[spearmaster]

I was at an auction at my son's school. My wife bought an OSU football signed by Mike Gundy (I'm 40! I'm a man!) for $60, and bought my sister in law an OU football signed by Bob Stoops for $250. I like OSU more than OU even though OU is a better football team.

Oh, was Earth hour tonight? All my lights were off in the house because we were not home.

I hear ya there, I have Buckeye memorabilia all through out the house. I did have an inflatable Brutus Buckeye in my yard until some thief stole it when I was at drill one weekend. Bastards!

Yeah it was tonight and I had to "celebrate" since it's been plastered all over the internet and TV this past week. :)

[Dem]

I hope you don’t get salmonella from the spoiled meat in the freg.
Frozen meat doesn't go bad after an hour. Anyways we didn't turn off our fridge or freezer.

[Raoul Duke]

absolutely nothing - I think I was watch a dvd or something

[Oddball]

I went out to eat and watch some sports on the giant screen teevee and drove my car at 80+ mph on the freeway.

[highroller]

Nothing.

[zerk]

I was probably shoveling snow for conacophillips.

[spearmaster]

I would have done those things....waste energy.....if I knew about it in advance. I heard about it after the fact.....UGH

We should create our own day, maybe name it "GW is a Farce" day.

[ThinkingMan]

I bypassed my circuit breaker and ran full tilt all the electrical current the transformer on the pole could muster into the ground.

120,000 kWHrs.

Eat it libs.

[Jalend Skyr]

Turned on all 6 huge flat screen hd TVs to fox news, turned on all the lights, and dropped a big one and flushed 6 times.

[Oddball]

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[Mydogatemyhomework]

I turned off EVERYTHING, lit a kerosine lantern, and mounted a new scope on my assault rifle.



(Yes, I am a "Lib" with guns) :D

[spearmaster]

I tried to destroy as much of the environment as I could during that hour.

I think Big Red, my truck, did a pretty good job of releasing carbon monoxide into the atmosphere tonight. :D

[Cav Scout]

I watched the power spike in Washington state as the American Aluminium fired its smelters back up for the first time in six years...

It is so sweet! 6.7 Megawatts of demand Right Now...

That cancels out about 475 of the households that turned all their power off to save the planet...

[Dem]

I bypassed my circuit breaker and ran full tilt all the electrical current the transformer on the pole could muster into the ground.

120,000 kWHrs.

Eat it libs.

Using the average cost of electricity in Florida. You just spent around 9000 dollars.

[ThinkingMan]

I turned off EVERYTHING, lit a kerosine lantern, and mounted a new scope on my assault rifle.



(Yes, I am a "Lib" with guns) :D

Kerosene heaters make Gaia cry.

[Antrel]

Had some friends over, and opted out of doing ridiculous things to increase my energy bill just so I could say I was cool.

[Raoul Duke]

Had some friends over, and opted out of doing ridiculous things to increase my energy bill just so I could say I was cool.

:hug: me too!

[ThinkingMan]

Using the average cost of electricity in Florida. You just spent around 9000 dollars.

Right - if I didn't bypass the electric meter too.


Awwww Crap!!!!!

[ThinkingMan]

I duct taped the freezer to the microwave and cranked them both up full blast to see who wins.

[dad49er]

IMO conspicuous consumption is just as embarrassing as sitting in the dark like a caveman.
I try to leave stuff off I'm not using all the time.

[spearmaster]

I turned off EVERYTHING, lit a kerosine lantern, and mounted a new scope on my assault rifle.



(Yes, I am a "Lib" with guns) :D

A lib with guns??? I didn't know there was such a thing. ;)

[sgdp]

I made a grilled cheese. That couldn't have taken the whole hour though.. :think: What else was I doing...?

[ThinkingMan]

IMO conspicuous consumption is just as embarrassing as sitting in the dark like a caveman.
I try to leave stuff off I'm not using all the time.


It's never a good idea to waste energy.

[Cav Scout]

IMO conspicuous consumption is just as embarrassing as sitting in the dark like a caveman.
I try to leave stuff off I'm not using all the time.

I would like to think most of us do that. I am probabley naive.
I did however leave my brass polishing ammo tumblers running.

[gdoane]

I totally blew it off.

Not that it was on purpose; I blew off St. Patrick's Day this month too and I'll probably blow off Easter next month. I'm just not a date-oriented type of guy. I keep a stock of belated birthday cards for when my mom gets mad at me for forgetting.

Give me half a chance and I'd forget Christmas too.

[Mydogatemyhomework]

"A lib with guns??? I didn't know there was such a thing. ;) "

You may be surprised.


My favorite is my 1895 Winchester .30-.40 Kraig carbine with sadle ring, and a scabard that is Buffalo skin. ( Thanks Grandpa!)

[spearmaster]

Had some friends over, and opted out of doing ridiculous things to increase my energy bill just so I could say I was cool.

Ahh but it's cool believe in G.W. and do things in the name of G.W. If you express your disbelief in G.W. your only doing it to say you're cool. I guess libs really do have a monopoly on protesting.

[deportalllibs]

I hope you don’t get salmonella from the spoiled meat in the freg.

Classic! :)):)):))

[Cav Scout]

I totally blew it off.

Not that it was on purpose; I blew off St. Patrick's Day this month too and I'll probably blow off Easter next month. I'm just not a date-oriented type of guy. I keep a stock of belated birthday cards for when my mom gets mad at me for forgetting.

Give me half a chance and I'd forget Christmas too.

A wife will fix that for you...

[Silk]

We grilled four t-bone steaks out on the front porch.
We kept the porch light on (I did need it for grilling), upper and lower level lights on (hey I have kids)..then watched Band of Brothers, on the big screen, with the volume blaring..sounded like our house was being shelled :))

[fjccommish]

Everyone in the world turning off every light would have made not one iota of difference to the Earth.

[Quaere_Verum]

Myself I turned everything electrical on, lights, TV, radios etc,. I even made a couple trips to town in my old 12 mpg Ford truck for no particular reason. I wish I would have some Christmas lights to light my house up so bright that would make Clark Griswald envious. :)

Same here minus the truck.

[CaptainPike]

I sacrificed a chicken for Mother Gaia

[DaveKlassix]

turned on all electronic devices I could, charged every battery device I have (like the PSP, Ipod, etc), and turned the air conditioner too (even though I didn't need it).

[DaveKlassix]

I turned off EVERYTHING, lit a kerosine lantern, and mounted a new scope on my assault rifle.



(Yes, I am a "Lib" with guns) :D

But are you a bitter lib clinging to your gun and religion?

[PredFan]

I'm at work but I went to the top floor of the building and looked out at the city. It seems this fine city doesn't go for that crap. There were a lot of lights still on.

[Physics Hunter]

I bypassed my circuit breaker and ran full tilt all the electrical current the transformer on the pole could muster into the ground.

120,000 kWHrs.

Eat it libs.

If that is true, I am in awe.

[gdoane]

A wife will fix that for you...

Talk about trading one problem for another...

My ex-wife insisted on "Month-aversaries", which is part of why the ditz is my ex. I'd get the dreaded "do you remember what today is?" query and of course I don't. If I did then I wouldn't be wearing a digital watch.

So I don't remember my Mother's birthday. Why would I? I obviously wasn't THERE! It happened in 1946, I'm only 44 years old, so why would I remember that?

I do try, I've got Microsoft Outlook watching out for me, a Motorola Q phone, and an iPod Touch which occasionally try to save my ass from forgetting a date but even all that computing horsepower isn't enough to keep me on track with everything all the time.

Years are an illusion anyway. We're on a rock spinning around a spinning Sun so we're not even in the same position we were last year relative to the surface of the Sun. If you had a time machine and you went straight back a year without adjusting for motion, you'd be thousands of miles out in space wondering where the heck the Earth went.

I'm not good with temporal concepts, and that's a limitation of mine I know I have. Holidays are basically based on years and years don't really have anything to do with time unless you believe the third rock revolving around a yellow star anywhere is the definitive chord of the fourth dimension.

I think it's funny that self-professed big-picture thinkers worry about a calendar. I don't. Our calendar is an artificial construct at best.

[Antrel]

Ahh but it's cool believe in G.W. and do things in the name of G.W. If you express your disbelief in G.W. your only doing it to say you're cool. I guess libs really do have a monopoly on protesting.Whatever you say, pimp.

[ISYairio]

I drove to the discount theater and watched Detective Danny Fisher (John Cena) kill Miles Jackson (Aidan Gillen), like he said he would.

[PredFan]

Whatever you say, pimp.

Stupid and childish post of the year so far.

[gdoane]

I sacrificed a chicken for Mother Gaia

I had pork. I wanted to eat the other white meat and be completely incorrect.

[Mydogatemyhomework]

But are you a bitter lib clinging to your gun and religion?


Uhm... I have no Religion. Perhaps I should make this clear;

I HAVE NO RELIGION.

[Ninjacorpse]

The same thing I have been doing all evening, enjoying all the luxuries of living in a 1st world country. :flag:

[nunyadb]

Had 18 welders, 12 fitters, and six generators all running plus every light we could turn on going while we are committing the ultimate crime against the environmentalists, ..........getting an oil drilling rig ready to commision and go dig
for some of that black gooey stuff that everybody needs and lies about when
they say they don't want it................LOL

[ISYairio]

The same thing I have been doing all evening, enjoying all the luxuries of living in a 1st world country. :flag:Your new avatar...

At least you aren't dressing up like Snow White anymore. :whistle:

:razz:

[AlejandroGauna]

made out with wife with all lights on

[homiebrah]

Cranked up extra lights...

hellyeah!

Smoked a cigar with the AC set to 65.

[waynevan]

Myself I turned everything electrical on, lights, TV, radios etc,. I even made a couple trips to town in my old 12 mpg Ford truck for no particular reason. I wish I would have some Christmas lights to light my house up so bright that would make Clark Griswald envious. :)

I didn't even know it had come and gone............

[neechidragon]

I spent an hour laughing at stupid liberals who thought they were making a difference.

[LouC]

When was earth hour?

[nortman]

I was at an auction at my son's school. My wife bought an OSU football signed by Mike Gundy (I'm 40! I'm a man!) for $60, and bought my sister in law an OU football signed by Bob Stoops for $250. I like OSU more than OU even though OU is a better football team.

Oh, was Earth hour tonight? All my lights were off in the house because we were not home.
I'm with you. I'll root for OU because Bob Stoops is a local boy. But, I am most definitely a Buckeye fan............BTW, who is Mike Gundy. I don't remember him wearing the scarlet and gray.




:mrgreen:

[nortman]

I did nothing different. Although, I didn't laugh atthose who did. They were just getting ready for what they are going to have to do when President Obama gets his wish and doubles or triples our utility bills.

[kenpoman]

I made a point of turning on every light in the house.

[bigtwnvin]

Lit candles, turned off all the lights, got nekked and the wife & I worked on our "marital obligation". Went waaayy longer than an hour :D so do we get a credit or something?

[LouC]

Lit candles, turned off all the lights, got nekked and the wife & I worked on our "marital obligation". Went waaayy longer than an hour :D so do we get a credit or something?

Lit candles, burning wax and wick?

Obvious increased heart rates from sexual arousal with subsequent heavy breathing causing increased CO2 exhalation?

No you bolixed the whole shut the lights off idea...

[samurai7]

I forgot about the whole thing. :))

But I had the lights on, worked on my computer. I guess that counts for something.

:mrgreen:

[msny]

Myself I turned everything electrical on, lights, TV, radios etc,. I even made a couple trips to town in my old 12 mpg Ford truck for no particular reason. I wish I would have some Christmas lights to light my house up so bright that would make Clark Griswald envious. :)

Turned on all my outside lights, ran the microwave for numerous snacks.
Fired up my 52" HDTV, took it OFF of power saving mode,ran the stereo
with Dolby digital sound.

Did a lot of stuff I dont usually do, cause I conserve
naturally, without being told too do so by whachos...:))

[Lee Kington]

I get a kick out of the ones who participated...

They turned out their lights.

Then they had a get together in their back yard complete with tiki-torches, burgers on a charcoal BBQ, and a propane heater to fend off the cold.

[Nevarwinter]

I turned on my porch lights which normally aren't on and I cleaned my rifle outside. Beautiful night. The smell of gun solvent dripping on to the concrete made it magical.

[mrclean]

I didn't do anything.

On the other hand, I didn't turn on every light in my house like some schmucks reportedly did.

[psyko kat]

Damm, I missed it...

[tjvh]

I watched a Hockey game on a Big Screen TV and drank Beer with four friends, nobody even mentioned it, or knew about it... Nor would any have cared about these "cute Liberal propaganda" moves. There were plenty of lights on to illuminate our path to the cold Beer in the Fridge.

[RickRhetoric]

My Democratic neighbors across the street went into total blackout from 08:30 to 09:30.

We conspicuously and defiantly turned on every available light for that hour.

[mdk190]

I was too busy with other useless propaganda like dumping tea into the river for instance.

[tha malcontent™]

I ran a Tank of Gas out of my 71 K5 with a 396...

As Inefficiently as Humanly Possible.

Buried that Bitch after every Stop!

:)

peace...

[PuckHappy]

Does anyone really believe that those effected by the global warming spring blizzard through the mid states turned off their heaters for the hour?

[sweet92169]

Does anyone really believe that those effected by the global warming spring blizzard through the mid states turned off their heaters for the hour?

:clap:

[simssk]

We should create our own day, maybe name it "GW is a Farce" day.

Seriously spearmaster. That would be a very good idea. But unfortunately, the people against global warming don't seem to have what it takes to make their voice heard above all the "the world is ending, global warming" voices. Organize something like this and people would have the info needed to make up their own minds instead of hearing one side and totally believing it in. Why is it that people on the right will not make more noise or fight more for what they believe in?

[simssk]

My Democratic neighbors across the street went into total blackout from 08:30 to 09:30.

We conspicuously and defiantly turned on every available light for that hour.

Way to go Rick! Did you get a chance to speak to these dems and give them info that would prove global warming isn't happening? Although, it's quite true, people who would do something like this are not going to listen to you. You need a big sign in your yard, global warming is bogus.

[Cutiepie]

Cranked up extra lights...

hellyeah!




we did the same thing. I had both TV's on and had every single light on in the house. I even turned the light on up in our attic.

[JudasGoat]

I live way out in east buddha-lots of country roads.
Aside from driving, country roads seem to serve the purpose of old tire disposal. (and at times old washers and dryers)
I drove around collecting old tires and had a ginormous tire bonfire. Occasionally I'd throw cans of oven cleaner and used motor oil in it too. sweet judas, what a stink...and the smoke! bwahahahahaha.
It didn't run up my power bill one bit either.

[NightTrain]

I live way out in east buddha-lots of country roads.
Aside from driving, country roads seem to serve the purpose of old tire disposal. (and at times old washers and dryers)
I drove around collecting old tires and had a ginormous tire bonfire. Occasionally I'd throw cans of oven cleaner and used motor oil in it too. sweet judas, what a stink...and the smoke! bwahahahahaha.
It didn't run up my power bill one bit either.

I pity the foo downwind of that...;)

[LindaLR]

We went out to dinner, then to a local play, so... we supported local businesses, who uh... um... had their lights on.
As we drove around, we noticed no real differences in our neighborhood. Im happy to see we are not surrounded by hysterical ninnies :)

[JudasGoat]

I pity the foo downwind of that...;)

that's right, sucka!

[nortman]

I didn't do anything.

On the other hand, I didn't turn on every light in my house like some schmucks reportedly did.So, since a fe here said that they did this, you feel it's not uncivil to call them schmucks.

[PheonixOps]

Myself I turned everything electrical on, lights, TV, radios etc,. I even made a couple trips to town in my old 12 mpg Ford truck for no particular reason. I wish I would have some Christmas lights to light my house up so bright that would make Clark Griswald envious. :)

Business as usual on a Saturday night, chilled had a few beers, watched T.V. and hang out with the wife. Nothing different......................

[Storm Horse]

I watched "The Marine" and then I went on the computer and played some WOW.

[AvgGuyIA]

Turned on all 6 huge flat screen hd TVs to fox news, turned on all the lights, and dropped a big one and flushed 6 times.You are truly a Great American! :))

[opsyscw]

I went to a Gay bar and when they had Earth Hour and the lights went out several people thought it was Uranus Hour.

[ScottFree]

When was it?

[AutoRacer55]

Turned out a light or two, nothing wrong with it I think.

[ScottFree]

I turned on everything electric in my house and went to visit my neighbors to buy some carbon credits. Their Amish.

[ScottFree]

I cranked my house current up to 1.21 jigawatts. Fired up the DeLorean, and traveled back to 1977, to a high school in Hawaii, just to see how much I could screw the future up. How did I do?

[JudasGoat]

I went to a Gay bar and when they had Earth Hour and the lights went out several people thought it was Uranus Hour.

now that's funny.:))

[lillith32]

I was going to turn all the light in my appartment on (juvenile? yes! but oh so mentally satisfying!) , however, I completely forgot and instead went to the appartment complex gym, where I proceeded to talk three random strangers into attending the Chicago Tea Party on the 15th.

[RTchoke]

We made homemade pizza and sat and watched the tube with the lights on. ;) Worked a little on patching in prep for painting this week.

[Alan J]

I wasn't home. My lights were off anyway though, so I kind of unintentionally participated. I might have bothered turning them off if I'd been there.

Also, I find the mental picture of all the folks in this thread gleefully trying to waste energy and money last night amusing. What are you guys, 6?

[PeterGriffin]

I cranked my house current up to 1.21 jigawatts. Fired up the DeLorean, and traveled back to 1977, to a high school in Hawaii, just to see how much I could screw the future up. How did I do?

You misspelled gigawatts.

BTW, it's a pet peeve of mine that even after "Back To The Future" gave everybody a 10+ year head start, "gig", "gigawatt", etc., are pronounced with a hard G sound. I mean, think about it. How retarded would you think someone sounded if the said "gigantic" with a hard g sound?

[ScottFree]

We made homemade pizza and sat and watched the tube with the lights on. ;) Worked a little on patching in prep for painting this week.


You mean....
You turned your oven on????

You're evil!:evil:

[ScottFree]

You misspelled gigawatts.

BTW, it's a pet peeve of mine that even after "Back To The Future" gave everybody a 10+ year head start, "gig", "gigawatt", etc., are pronounced with a hard G sound. I mean, think about it. How retarded would you think someone sounded if the said "gigantic" with a hard g sound?


I figured that in the movie they spelled it that way, (with a J) and pronounced it that way, in order to give it some ficticious, astronomical meaning. Oooops. my bad. So, if I screwed up the spelling, I guess you would agree I screwed up the future prety good too, by telling that young man Barry, that he would grow up to be President some day.

[robinlp69]

We drove to "Outback" in our SUV...got Takeout...came home...watched DVR shows...us in one room...kids watch a movie in another...wine chiller on...lights on...microwave used for popcorn...enjoying the perks that we all worked so hard to achieve and loved every minute of it!!

[mamapajamas]

I took a dinner break from my regular job of playing with our data center's multi-megawatt toys, and drove up and down the local "strip" spotting businesses that were dark (at 8:45 on a Saturday night? No way-- not even in Tallahassee!), making a mental note not to assist them in the future with their individual economic crises. :twisted:

MOST of the businesses were lit up normally, so this isn't going to be an even middlin' difficult boycott. :mrgreen:

BTW, when I left home for work yesterday, I left my lights on, something I never do normally.

[Lee Kington]

A notation regarding what the Flim-Flam Con-Artist Al Gore did...

The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion. LINK (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/29/al-gore-snubs-earth-hour/)

[tha malcontent™]

now that's funny.:))

Yes it was...

From Spaceballs Forward, Uranus Jokes never go out of Fashion.

:)

peace...

[skprtod914]

What did you do for "Earth Hour"?

Completely forgot about it, actually. Can't say I regret not going along with it.

[NightTrain]

A notation regarding what the Flim-Flam Con-Artist Al Gore did...

LINK (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/29/al-gore-snubs-earth-hour/)

Hey!

He pays himself a lot of money for that privilege!

Well, indirectly through scams and con jobs, but still....

What's the inventor of the interweb supposed to do? have unlit trees???

You people are barbarians!!!

[tha malcontent™]

Hey!

He pays himself a lot of money for that privilege!

Well, indirectly through scams and con jobs, but still....

What's the inventor of the interweb supposed to do? have unlit trees???

You people are barbarians!!!

You're a Liberal Internationalist* too?...

Damn it, I'm in Good Company!

:)

peace...

[Penrod]

If I had known when It was I would have turned on everything in my house and started my car.

[RWReaganfan]

Frozen meat doesn't go bad after an hour. Anyways we didn't turn off our fridge or freezer.

You said you did.

[TheOldMan]

Had 18 welders, 12 fitters, and six generators all running plus every light we could turn on going while we are committing the ultimate crime against the environmentalists, ..........getting an oil drilling rig ready to commision and go dig
for some of that black gooey stuff that everybody needs and lies about when
they say they don't want it................LOL

Hey Nunyadb, I took my wife, brother-in-law, and his wife, on a tour of the great "man shops" in Dallas & Ft Worth. 2 Bass Pro shops and 1 Cabelas. We drove my big honkin F-250 almost 500 miles. We ate big juicy steaks at Bass Pro shop.
And the best part, my wife bought 1000 rds for her AR-15. My brother-in-law got 3000 rds for his 17 HMR, my sister-in-law bought 1000 rds for her 9mm. I bought 2500 rds for my AK47.
It was a great trip. Burned plenty of fuel. It was a great family outing.
I hope you get that rig up and running. Drill them deep and not wet.

[RWReaganfan]

I spent the better part of the hour huddled with my family in a closet.

No, I'm not weird or anything, but when they give a tornado warning in March in Kentucky, you tend to take things like that seriously!

[RTchoke]

You mean....
You turned your oven on????

You're evil!:evil:

...........and proud of it. :mrgreen:

Cold already cooked pizza I'll eat. Uncooked pizza..........not so much.:sick:

[kat]

Well let's see.......... cleaned my oven, turned on every single light inside and out, had 3 computers, 1 Xbox, 1 PS2 and 5 TV's on at the same time. Washed 3 loads of laundry, but with my energy saving washer and dryer. Turned the heat up to 85 but then turned it down to 80.... it got hotter than hell in here. Hubby went out to the garage and changed all the oil in the summer implements and let 'em rip for a while. Fired up the bad ass Hemi in my Ram for about 10 minutes and revved the engine a few times.

[pattyk]

I proudly lit 4 TV's, all the lights, Christmas lights that I keep on my front porch all year long, lit up a couple flood lights, all flood lights outside. I looked out over the valley ( I can see for miles) and it was pretty dark out there. (but they can see me too and I was pretty visible for miles.)

dam, forgot about the oven.

stupid environmentalist whackos

[Liberty1980]

I completely forgot about earth hour. My saturday evening was pretty hectic so we sat down to watch a movie and had all the lights turned off so it'd be dark and had the surround sound up loud. Dratz!! I accidentally participated.....

[ThinkingMan]

If that is true, I am in awe.


Well, it was awesome, at least until the transformer exploded and showered the neighborhood with burned varnish smelling mineral oil.

[dmaddy1]

nothing and proud of it......turn off our tap to Muslim oil than mabe ill listen

[ThinkingMan]

nothing and proud of it......turn off our tap to Muslim oil than mabe ill listen

Except for cutting off means of our own domestic production, the current administration is currently doing this by forcing the market to want hybrids, solar, wind, etc.... Oh - and taxing carbon, which only using oil creates, evidently.

[ValricoKate]

We did nothing differently.
I did poke my head out the door to see what the "Jones" were doing. I giggled when I saw lights on all over the neighborhood that weren't on normally ...lights streaming upward through all the skylights.

[meggers49]

Lit candles, burning wax and wick?

Obvious increased heart rates from sexual arousal with subsequent heavy breathing causing increased CO2 exhalation?

No you bolixed the whole shut the lights off idea...

he's obviously an environmentally insensative lout! a spotlight should be turned onto his house so everyone can see where the perpetrator of such global carnage resides!

[ValricoKate]

...BTW, it's a pet peeve of mine that even after "Back To The Future" gave everybody a 10+ year head start, "gig", "gigawatt", etc., are pronounced with a hard G sound. I mean, think about it. How retarded would you think someone sounded if the said "gigantic" with a hard g sound?

Mine is 'erb.
I say herb ...I don't say 'enry either.

[RowdyTexan]

Ah, nuts! I forgot about turning the oven on to clean. :))

I did however turn on every light in the house, kicked the a/c down to 65 and had all the bedroom tv's on fox news.. muted of course cause we were watching a movie in the living room. :flag:

I'll do better next time... I will bring the travel trailer home and plug it in too... a whole extra set of appliances.

[mrclean]

I turned off all my lights and appliances and built a nice fire in the backyard with American flags and Bibles and grilled up some nice fresh human embryos.

Mmmmm, tasty.

[ThinkingMan]

I turned off all my lights and appliances and built a nice fire in the backyard with American flags and Bibles and grilled up some nice fresh human embryos.

Mmmmm, tasty.

At least make your sarcastic hyperbole pertinent to the topic and not just a generalized spasmodic political jab.

Example: I ceased all activity that directly or indirectly is associated with the carbon atom.

[meggers49]

You misspelled gigawatts.

BTW, it's a pet peeve of mine that even after "Back To The Future" gave everybody a 10+ year head start, "gig", "gigawatt", etc., are pronounced with a hard G sound. I mean, think about it. How retarded would you think someone sounded if the said "gigantic" with a hard g sound?

hmmm well, the people who work for our electric company are going to have to learn how to pronounce the stuff they sell then, huh?
because they've refered to it with the Hard G for as long as I can recall.

I heard about the Earth Hour 10 minutes before it happened while i was watching tv.

at 8:30, i got our x10 remote and turned on everything that would go on. I turned it all off again at 9:30. one hour's worth of power isn't going to break me and I hate do-gooders telling me how to live my life.

[nebcon]

I went to see the movie "knowing" with my wife, which if you have seen the movie, the irony won't be lost on you. Upon finishing the movie and getting back into the car, the first song on the radio was Blue Oyster Cult's "Burning for you", then "the heat is on", then some other similar song. It got to the point where I was thinking "alright I got the idea already!".

[Lee Kington]

On the Watts Up With That blog they have a comparison from Sat night and from Sun night of power consumption during the "Earth Hour".
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/29/earth-hour-in-california-success-or-bust-the-caiso-power-graph-tells-the-story/

Also..... you might enjoy this....
http://www.glar.gl/

[Mohawk5]

It was so important to me I forgot about it!

[sonnytt]

I burnt a dozen truck tires in my backyard. I spilled some mercury in the toilet and flushed it.

Overall, I'm very proud with myself.

[nebcon]

You people are hilarious. All of you that turned all of your lights on to spite The Liberals are just as dumb, sensationalizing and petty as the people who promoted the original event.

HAHA LIBERALS PROMOTE CONSERVATION SO I'M GOING TO DO THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE.

Doesn't the bible, who most of you follow I assume, preach against over-consumption anyway? Oh that's right, Jesus said "Let us wasteth every consumable good as quickly as possible, it's the American Way".

What a bunch of morons, libs and cons.

Oh lighten up a little. It's good natured fun. Nobody was harmed by keeping all those lights on. Unlike Liberals who tend to retaliate in a more destructive or disruptive fashion. Grow a sense of humor and don't call people you know nothing about "morons".

[harumph]

When was it? Did I miss it? I'm bummed. Will they be doing it next year?

[tinydancer]

When was it? Did I miss it? I'm bummed. Will they be doing it next year?

Did you know that the dude who is credited for founding "EARTH DAY" killed his girlfriend and composted her in his apartment?

Not kidding. Not joking. It's for true.

I always celebrate earth day in her memory. The bastard was an abusive son of a witch.

Edit to add: just another reason to hate Alan Specter. He defended the SOB.

[harumph]

Did you know that the dude who is credited for founding "EARTH DAY" killed his girlfriend and composted her in his apartment?

Not kidding. Not joking. It's for true.

I always celebrate earth day in her memory. The bastard was an abusive son of a witch.

Edit to add: just another reason to hate Alan Specter. He defended the SOB.

Given that info, the new administration will probably petition for an Earth Day holiday. Hillary can hand out buttons with "I survived Earth Day" on them.

Ok. That wasn't funny. Sorry.

[ConstitutionHugger]

It was so important to me I forgot about it!

Don't feel bad I didn't observe it either. Matter of fact i didn't even know about it till today.

[harumph]

I heard that Tom Burdette with Motel 6 now says "We were gonna leave the light on for ya, but it wasn't PC."

[tinydancer]

Given that info, the new administration will probably petition for an Earth Day holiday. Hillary can hand out buttons with "I survived Earth Day" on them.

Ok. That wasn't funny. Sorry.

ROTF. OK. I have a bent sense of humor as well.

I was thinking more along the lines of "Ira failed to compost properly; this is how he got caught".

I really do spend the day honoring a girl called Holly Maddux who, because her murderer was a left wing hero gets left behind.

He used to beat her/rape her continuosly. But he's an ECO STAR.

Holly doesn't count to the left.

[Wilhelm Scream]

Did you know that the dude who is credited for founding "EARTH DAY" killed his girlfriend and composted her in his apartment?

Not kidding. Not joking. It's for true.

I always celebrate earth day in her memory. The bastard was an abusive son of a witch.

Edit to add: just another reason to hate Alan Specter. He defended the SOB.

Are you talking about the Unicorn Killer? That's a myth. The "dude" who founded Earth Day was a man named John McConnell.

I do not understand why people feel the need to "anti-protest" something like Earth Hour. If you don't want to participate, then don't participate. It seems counterproductive to anti-demonstrate by needlessly wasting your own gas and electricity. All you are doing is running up your own bills. What good does that do?

[TinCan]

Myself I turned everything electrical on, lights, TV, radios etc,. I even made a couple trips to town in my old 12 mpg Ford truck for no particular reason. I wish I would have some Christmas lights to light my house up so bright that would make Clark Griswald envious. :)

Honestly, we forgot all about it. When it was supposedly going on, my wife was doing laudry, dishes, had something in the oven and was vacuuming. I was in the garage running power tools with all the lights on working on my never-ending "honey do" list and even had the big yard light burning as I went back and forth from the garage to the small shop/storage shed out back.

Just curious, are we going to get a ticket or something for not observing it?

Oh yeah, even had the front porch lights on because some of the projects were a couple of new rocking chairs, a two person bench, and an oblong slat table that I had just completed.

Well, there's always next year, it's not like missing the wife's birthday or mother's day or valentine's day or our anniversary, right?

[meggers49]

Are you talking about the Unicorn Killer? That's a myth. The "dude" who founded Earth Day was a man named John McConnell.

I do not understand why people feel the need to "anti-protest" something like Earth Hour. If you don't want to participate, then don't participate. It seems counterproductive to anti-demonstrate by needlessly wasting your own gas and electricity. All you are doing is running up your own bills. What good does that do?

because people are sick and tired of self-righteous prigs telling everyone how to live. We in the US are already light years ahead of people throughout the world in conservation and environmental/ecological issues. Maybe they'd be better spending their time telling the Chinese or Indians or other third-worlders and developing nations to clean up their acts and leave us the hell alone.

For an hour, it's worth it to tell those who think they know so much to butt out of our lives.

[utmom]

We where at dinner at a restaurant - all the lights where on!

[TinCan]

We where at dinner at a restaurant - all the lights where on!

Just curious, are you a big Denver Bronco's fan?

[Cold_War_Warrior]

I don’t know when I was supposed to be saving the Earth this weekend so, I had 3 TVs and receivers on at the same time…one with the surround sound amped up playing “Wanted” on DVD; an x-box 360 playing on another; and one playing back a VCR that I recorded the Australian F1 GP Qualifying round and again for the race on Sunday.

I cooked my chicken dinner in the oven while 4 burners on the cooktop were cranked up; used the microwave multiple times during the day and to reheat coffee from the electric percolator made early in the morning. I kept the refrigerator door open more than closed in the course of the day.

I washed & dried 3 loads of laundry set on warm/hot and Super Large for the most water usage and natural gas burnin'. Everyone had a hot, steamy shower at one time or the other during the day. At least 3 loads of dishes in the dishwasher as well as pots & pans cleaned in the sink.

I made a trip in the Jeep to get a birthday cake and a pizza Saturday afternoon driving through 6 inches or fresh spring snow when the roads were unplowed. And, I got a full tank of gasoline, too.

[grhayes]

I took the time to check the stars out over Houston that are not normally visible because all the excess light pollution from the city.

[Mountain Soldier]

I was driving around in my new SUV that was purchased the day before.

It was great! Plus a girl was in the front seat, so that made it all the better!

And yes, she drives an SUV too.

[mgifford]

I went to see Al Gore's lights all lit up in his house that nite.

[Mountain Soldier]

I went to see Al Gore's lights all lit up in his house that nite.

You should have stopped by John Edwards' 28,000 square foot mansion and asked him what he was doing for earth hour.

He's telling us to reduce our energy usage while living in a ****ing mansion.

What a ****ing hypocrite.

[mgifford]

You should have stopped by John Edwards' 28,000 square foot mansion and asked him what he was doing for earth hour.

He's telling us to reduce our energy usage while living in a ****ing mansion.

What a ****ing hypocrite.

The "D" following the Democrats's names should all have an "H" behind the D. "DH" party.

[wndrwmn71]

I watched tv on the big screen with most of my lights off, because that's how I watch the big screen tv. Boy does that baby put out a lot of heat! What else did I do? Umm not much, but I also didn't change anything. I'm not going to make myself uncomfortable just to "save" a few kilowatt hours. I could very easily survive for a week in my house without power, so to impress me don't have "Earth Hour", have "Earth Week"; don't use electricity AT ALL for 7 days.

Better yet, just don't pay your light bill in "protest", and have "Earth Month" for all I care.

[jwil59]

I wasn't home so my lights were off. We went through this last year so I ain't gonna talk about how stupid it is to try and offset a good thing with a bad thing. I am far from a zealot on the environment but conserving energy is a good thing if you ask me. Oh well, political zealot sheep will be political zealot sheep I guess.

[gdoane]

I wasn't home so my lights were off. We went through this last year so I ain't gonna talk about how stupid it is to try and offset a good thing with a bad thing. I am far from a zealot on the environment but conserving energy is a good thing if you ask me. Oh well, political zealot sheep will be political zealot sheep I guess.

Energy use isn't a bad thing. Energy consumption is the lifeblood of the American economy, from the scanners at the cash register to the traffic lights in the streets, if this nation consumed no energy it would be dead.

I agree with energy conservation in principle. I even put those CFL light bulbs in places I don't spend much time in like my pantry and walk-in closets but I can't put them anywhere I spend much time because the unnatural emphasis on the blue (cold) end of the spectrum makes me edgy and irritable.

I think the solution is in the free market but not in taxation or punitive measures because it punishes the poor. Who's living in older housing with crummy insulation? The poor. Who's driving the old gas-guzzling beater 1975 Caprice? The poor. Who's running the appliances so old they don't even have an energy star rating? The poor.

So any "carbon tax" or crackdown on energy consumption would hit the poor hardest and heaviest, becoming a burden on those who can least carry the weight.

Sometimes, often times, the best thing to do is NOTHING. The market is sorting this out. Politicians can step out of the fray and everything will be resolved without their help faster and better than it would if they tried to help.

[jwil59]

Energy use isn't a bad thing. Energy consumption is the lifeblood of the American economy, from the scanners at the cash register to the traffic lights in the streets, if this nation consumed no energy it would be dead.

I agree with energy conservation in principle. I even put those CFL light bulbs in places I don't spend much time in like my pantry and walk-in closets but I can't put them anywhere I spend much time because the unnatural emphasis on the blue (cold) end of the spectrum makes me edgy and irritable.

I think the solution is in the free market but not in taxation or punitive measures because it punishes the poor. Who's living in older housing with crummy insulation? The poor. Who's driving the old gas-guzzling beater 1975 Caprice? The poor. Who's running the appliances so old they don't even have an energy star rating? The poor.

So any "carbon tax" or crackdown on energy consumption would hit the poor hardest and heaviest, becoming a burden on those who can least carry the weight.

Sometimes, often times, the best thing to do is NOTHING. The market is sorting this out. Politicians can step out of the fray and everything will be resolved without their help faster and better than it would if they tried to help.

Like I said I am not a zealot about climate change or anything. My 98 Ford F-150 isn't all that much of qas saver, and I will always own a full size pickup of one sort or another. I also cannot argue against a free market solution and I am certainly not for a carbon tax or consumption tax. I am also good with basically doing nothing. Having said that, like you mentioned energy conservation is always a good thing. It just seems stupid to me that people would actually turn on every light in their house to offset earth hour. To me, this does nothing but destroy the credibility of the people who make an intelligent argument that the answer to this does not lie in the Government's hands, if even an answer is required at all. The people who chose to turn on all their lights have really hurt their cause.

[JoJo626]

I forgot about it. We just did our normal stuff. My husband had to buy light bulbs Sat. morning and picked up 100 watt instead of the 60 watt I normally get so we added about 400 watts/hour to our usual consumption.

Changed back to the 60 watt bulbs today to keep from burning the house down. Our fixtures are only rated for 60 watt bulbs.

[Samm]

I did the same thing as Al Gore... I left my lights on.

[JeffR]

The only thing I did specifically for Earth Hour was to turn my porch light on.

[Lee Kington]

Sean Hannity mentioned Al Gores activity during the Earth Hour during his show on Monday, March 30

An audio clip of it….
http://penoflight.com/climatebuzz/Misc/HGEarthDay.wma

[DougInAZ]

I was at an outdoor party with about 200 people. Trust me, it was NOT an earth hour party, it was a redneck party, and we had plenty of lights on.

[Gengar]

I seafoamed my car... lotsa carbon into the air... :D

*not my car or my vid, but I had even more carbon cloud goodness*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hrasAYG42g

[Wookinstien]

You're a Liberal Internationalist* too?...

Damn it, I'm in Good Company!

:)

peace...

I thought we were evil neo-cons...

Why don't I get these memos? :((

[Physics Hunter]

Turned on every light in the house. Turned on every light outside the house. Happened to be running dishwasher, washing machine, and dryer. Then drastically shut the lights down at 9:01 just to show off.

I hope the idiots who felt good about devolving to the third world had fun in the dark and cold.

[tinydancer]

I thought we were evil neo-cons...

Why don't I get these memos? :((

I think I like the beagle nose best.

For me celebrating earth day is always hard. The dude who started earth day killed his girlfriend and composted her.

I always plant a tree or a plant for a girl called Holly. This year from Vesey's I'm going to plant a beautiful blue peony.

Bastards on the left always revere him. No one remembers Holly except me.

One day more people will.

Earth Day is a hard day when you think about the bastard who killed a sweetheart of a girl who's only mistake in life was loving the pig who thought her not worthy of life.

[itsrea]

I would have done those things....waste energy.....if I knew about it in advance. I heard about it after the fact.....UGHGood to see you posting.

:)

[ISYairio]

Human Achievement Hour >>>>>>>>>> Earth Hour.

[mamapajamas]

because people are sick and tired of self-righteous prigs telling everyone how to live. We in the US are already light years ahead of people throughout the world in conservation and environmental/ecological issues. Maybe they'd be better spending their time telling the Chinese or Indians or other third-worlders and developing nations to clean up their acts and leave us the hell alone.

For an hour, it's worth it to tell those who think they know so much to butt out of our lives.

THANK YOU! Right on target! :clap:

[itsrea]

:rolleyes: Asking people to shut off power in the middle of the coldest winter we've had in a looong time was not the brightest planning on the planet....

:idea:






pun intended...

[nunyadb]

I still think mine was the best.

Had 18 welders, 12 fitters, and six generators all running plus every light we could turn on going while we are committing the ultimate crime against the environmentalists, ..........getting an oil drilling rig ready to commision and go dig
for some of that black gooey stuff that everybody needs and lies about when
they say they don't want it................LOL

[moo27]

turn on every light...it felt great. i monitor my energy usage like a hawk, but solely to keep my bill low. i don't need those pigs telling me to turn off my lights. i'm enjoying my electricity before they cause the prices to skyrocket. what are they going to do when elderly people start dying b/c they can't afford to turn on the AC? i'd sure love to update my condo to make it more energy efficient to save money, but a tax credit won't pay my bill at the time of installation.

[mamapajamas]

turn on every light...it felt great. i monitor my energy usage like a hawk, but solely to keep my bill low. i don't need those pigs telling me to turn off my lights. i'm enjoying my electricity before they cause the prices to skyrocket. what are they going to do when elderly people start dying b/c they can't afford to turn on the AC? i'd sure love to update my condo to make it more energy efficient to save money, but a tax credit won't pay my bill at the time of installation.

This is an excellent point... the specter of the elderly dying because of the lack of a/c, especially in hot areas like Florida and the Southwest.

Those clowns in California who are deciding whether to install monitoring devices to adjust people's thermostats arbitrarily from the Home Office had better be prepared for lawsuits that will come when someone who, for medical reasons, is sensitive to heat or cold dies.

I know that a lot of people on heart medications of certain types require air conditioning, or they get seriously uncomfortable and can't sleep. When they can no longer get enough sleep, it strains their hearts and-- bammo!-- heart attack. An aunt of mine died for exactly that reason during a long-term power outage after one of the hurricanes. She should have evacuated, and didn't think of the follow-up power outage. No one else was held responsible for this. But if the power prigs in Cali arbitrarily change the thermostat levels in people's homes, it would be a different matter.

Beware, dingbats of California! Ask not for whom the bell tolls... etc. ;)