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Originally Posted by Michaelangelica
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Originally Posted by Truble
The solutions include sucking it up & doing with less. Enough already of the Christmas lights and wrapping paper and McDonalds toys, yada, yada, yada. If history is any indication, only the dead will heed this advice.  |
Yep, about right.
Christmas Lights get bigger and bigger here every year. Many streets co-operate and raise thousands for medical and kid's charities. Some are so huge that they have rows of Ice craem vans and fast food vans to cater for the crowds.!
II heard one Christmas Lights kill-joy (Schofield) being berated on the radio last year. One guy rang in and said his Christmas lights would not count for two fireworks at the various New Year and other Fireworks displays (Which Scofield used to organise).
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Sorry; no exceptions. Whether home lights, city displays, or corporate, Christmas lights are every bit the kind of excess that we have to put the kabosh on if we mean to get serious about curbing pollution from our primary source coal-fired generating plants.
The locals over the river in Portland Oregon are all atwitter about their thousands of new LED lights for their displays, touting them as 'saving energy'. Good grief!!! They bought them from factories in China, the wires are coated with lead, and any frivoloius waste is never a savings. Who's paying for this? The taxpayers. Meantime, the city is putting off road repairs & light-rail security guards for lack of money.
No more Christmas lights people!!!! Period!! Suck it up & just say NO.
