Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/LAs-Big-Burn-Exposed.html" target="_blank">http://www.nbclosangeles.com/n...sed.html</a> >>Los Angeles is trying to become the greenest city in the world, leading the way in energy conservation. But NBCLA has exposed one way the city is wasting energy, and your tax dollars. In some areas, the city has been leaving streetlights on all day long, needlessly burning electricity in broad daylight. Even worse, residents tell us they've been calling the city's 311 line for months, asking the city to turn off the lights during the day, all to no avail. It was only after we began questioning officials at LA's Bureau of Street lighting, that city began fixing this big waste of energy. Consider the case of one Westwood neighborhood, near Wilshire Blvd and Beverly Glen, where 564 streetlights have been burning 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Nomi Dershowitz's family has been calling 311 since February, asking the city to turn off the lights during the day. "The city did tell us they'd fix it quickly. Within two days" Dershowitz told NBC LA. But four months later, the city still hadn't fixed the problem. "Does it concern you that so much energy is being wasted?" NBC LA Investigative Reporter Joel Grover asked Ed Ebrahimian, head of LA's Bureau of Street Lighting. "No question, no question," he replied.<< Heck, I even have porch lighting that will automatically turn off if I forget to turn it off when it is daylight. Waste of money and a waste of electricity... Of course, it isn't their money they are spending.. It is OURS!
Originally Posted By Ursula Joel Grover is a kick in the pants. I wish he did the expose on the Valet parkers.
Originally Posted By DVC_Pongo What ever happened to that editorial that circulated a while back that said stuff like Red States not paying their fair share of taxes...blah blah blah, that we could have WDW...blah blah blah... I haven't seen that in a while. Anyone got a copy they could post or a link?
Originally Posted By cmpaley That's probably a programming glitch. As a resident of the City of Los Angeles, what I find really annoying is that many streets that are normally lit up are dark at night. That is VERY unsafe for people who are out and about...and none of this nonsense of, "well people shouldn't be out and about after dark." Any big city will have people out and about 24/7. Late at night, there may be less people, but, that means less traffic and people driving faster. I don't want to be driving somewhere (like home from Disneyland) and hit someone because I couldn't see them in the dark...or worse, I wouldn't want to be crossing a dark street only to be hit by someone who couldn't see ME!
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf <<I don't want to be driving somewhere (like home from Disneyland) and hit someone because I couldn't see them in the dark>> What do you have against sending people to the Happiest Place NOT on Earth?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros "Los Angeles is trying to become the greenest city in the world..." Well if LA really wants to be the greenest city in the world, they have many much bigger issues than streetlights on all day. The big one that comes to my mind is stealing water from other places, and then draining all of the rain water in to the ocean. The city is painfully spread out with inadequate public transportation (not terrible, but not nearly what it should be). Everybody in the city is only concerned with the image that they produce without any interest in the actual substance behind it, like what makes their actions actually environmentally friendly as long as the tag says that they are. Until they start to take a stab at some of these bigger issues, I really don't think that keeping lights on all the time are that big a deal. And isn't electricity supposed to be 'clean' energy? Never mind that they don't say where it comes from (usually dirty sources), but environmentalists seem to love using electric things...
Originally Posted By 4everurdisgrl Going Green is a joke. I tell everyone I know to reject this attempt to tax us, control us, regulate us, make us poorer, lower our standard of living, cost us jobs and to kill us with little cars and sky high energy bills. People that think going Green is a good idea need to really look closer at this movement. They don't care about saving the planet, the planet is fine. They want money, power and control of our lives.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Going Green is a joke. I tell everyone I know to reject this attempt to tax us, control us, regulate us, make us poorer, lower our standard of living, cost us jobs and to kill us with little cars and sky high energy bills. >>> I tell everyone I know to turn off their radio.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***the planet is fine*** <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/29/annan.climate.change.human/index.html" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WO...dex.html</a> "The first comprehensive report into the human cost of climate change warns the world is in the throes of a "silent crisis" that is killing 300,000 people each year." "More than 300 million people are already seriously affected by the gradual warming of the earth and that number is set to double by 2030, the report from the Global Humanitarian Forum warns."
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Well, you could be right. Since there was the recent beau attacks of a few days ago, and now this- he often comes back low key, and then, like diarrhea, can't contain himself any longer and just spews. Truly though, what a sad empty life to have to keep coming back to "prove " something at a place like this. BTW, how's the ticker?
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF ^^^ It turned out to be bronchitis, of all things! I just can't believe it would have made me feel the way I did. I really thought I was back to square one. I couldn't even walk up a few stairs without having to rest. As soon as I started antibiotics I felt measurably better. Still not at 100% but definitely better. I had my quarterly exam on Tuesday, and everything was OK there. He said -- in his words -- I'm doing "exceedingly well." Sure was glad to hear that!
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Yes, good to hear, BDSF. As an asthma sufferer of some degree, I can tell you bronchitis is nothing to laugh about.
