March 28, 2009, cities around the world have pledged to take part in Earth Hour, when as much electricity is turned off as possible for one whole hour, to try and give the Earth and its resources a break.
Earth Hour is voluntary, when people shut off power in their homes, offices, public places and commercial spaces from 8:30 to 9:30 pm to raise awareness of how much electricity and light pollution is contributing to global warming and climate change.
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This irritates me. Now, I understand all of you environmental dorks believe in this crap, and that's fine, free country and all, but on March 28th I'm also taking a stand. To show how much I disapprove of cap and trade programs and more taxes on power, I will have everything I have that uses ANY electricity turned on for the full hour. I encourage everybody else to do the same.

I suppose the reason this irritates me so much isn't the whole global warming/climate change (whatever it is this week) its the fact that the government (once again) wants to punish businesses for being productive! It seems to me, Obama went into a room with his staff and said, "How can I f*ck things up even more? Oh! I've got it! Punish the people that are actually manufacturing things!" Now cap and trade sounds good to people who believe Al Gore (look, it's manbearpig! If you don't watch South Park you won't get that one...) but to those of us that work in, say, the mill, and would like to continue working their while what little steel is being made continues to do so, cap and trade is just another burden on companies. I covered this on my last show, why cap and trade? Why not offer tax cuts to companies that produce LESS than a set limit of carbon dioxide (which means all of us that work there will stop breathing every so often to help make money). That way companies have something to look forward to instead of sweating it everyday and worrying not just about making a profit, but whether or not Al Gore and the Eco-Nazis will come knocking on their door. It makes sense to me, but hell, what do I know. I don't drive a hybrid.