First, some blue stairs:
From: Area S Blackout Warden
To: Area S Citizens
Date: 29 March 2008
Subj: Compliance Report
Pursuant to my duties as described in People’s Republik Green Regulation 5301.433, on the evening of 29 March between 2000 and 2100 hours I conducted surveillance excursions throughout Area S to determine compliance with the Earth Day Blackout.
A full report will be issued upon completion of the statistical analyses in approximately one week.
A summary report can be issued immediately: Dreadful. A bare majority participated.
At least at the neighborhood level. Compliance at the city level was little better. Although your warden could see that quite a few downtown highrises were less bright, the Bay Bridge tower lights were off, and vehicular traffic in the neighborhood was reduced.
So it’s a start.
Of course I imagine that as a counter-protest against this godless Californication the citizens of Odessa left their full-size SUVs idling in their driveways for the hour.
With the lights on.