Mark your calendars, friends! On March 29, 2008, "Lights Out America" is recommending that we all turn off nonessential lights for one hour.
Why not the full day you ask? Good question! My guess is that LOA feels that one hour without extra lighting is a widely-accepted "sacrifice" that a lot of people will put up with. Then, once we "test the waters" and find out that everything's ok, even without the extra lights, we'll probably feel more comfortable leaving them off for longer and longer periods. Thus, we are paving the way to a world in which nonessential electric consumption is kept to a minimum.
This is of course far better than waiting until the government has to step in and ration all of our resources. "Attention citizens, between the hours of 4 and 5 pm, Eastern Standard Time, you will have access to electricity. And maybe water. That is all." Yikes!
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