I’m definitely more of a NASCAR fan than I am an Indy Car fan. Tonight at 8 p.m., however, the Indy Car opener at Homestead started up on ESPN2 and I did sit down to watch it. Open wheel racing isn’t nearly as exciting as stock cars, but it’s still racing. Unfortunately, my guy, Tony Kanaan, got taken out by a lapped car, while leading, with 8 laps to go, effectively handing the win to Scott Dixon.
What’s the point of all of this? Well, while watching the Indy Car race and eating ice cream and pizza, I was simultaneously writing a presentation for buyer behavior, transcribing a recording about bioterrorism and, most impressively, marveling at the sheer amount of light emanating from every single light fixture in my apartment. They were all turned on, you see, because at 8 p.m. tonight, the absurd ”Earth Hour” was supposed to kick in.
If you haven’t heard about it, consider yourself lucky. Essentially, it was basically an hour that tree-huggers invented where we were all supposed to turn off the lights in order to prove something about the environment. How acting like it’s 1850 is going to change the environment is anyone’s guess, and it’s not going to save more than a few cents on your electric bill.
Plus, they use the word “carbon” in all their blathering about the “event,” and that seriously offends me (it would have offended me worse if they had used the oft-lauded term “carbon credits,” but I suspect that is still forthcoming).
Soon, we’ll be told to buy carbon credits to get permission to use our lights. The environmentalist wackos are getting more and more dangerous and annoying by the day.
