[bratticus]

Does anyone else even remember seeing that on TV? It was some special long before cable TV.

Also the Saturday morning PSA animated video where the three ladies danced and sang "Remember right turn on red after stop"?

Seems http://video.google.com/ and http://archive.org/ don't have them yet.

[Sixstrings]

Hm, never heard of that program.

As for freezing in the dark, not likely.. I live in Florida. I'd sure miss a/c though.

I went to an old plantation house museum once. It was very interesting to see what sustainable living without electricity looks like. The house was build in such a way as to take most advantage of breezes. They had a large underground water cistern and system for catching rain. This is a house from the Civil War era, pretty impressive.

[PrestonSturges]

>I went to an old plantation house museum once. It was very interesting to see what sustainable living without electricity looks like.[/quote]
You left out the part about the army of slaves providing manual labor.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou left out the part about the army of slaves providing manual labor.

[vtsnowedin]

I don't know what show you are talking about but the answer is yes many will freeze in the dark.
Every nuclear plant is opposed because accidents are inevitable and the waste must be stored for eons.
Every hydo dam is opposed as it will halt fish runs and change stream ecology.
Every coal plant is opposed as it will cause strip mining and emit CO2.
Every wind farm is opposed as it will spoil some rich persons view.
Every solar pv farm is opposed as the increased shade will adversly effect snakes and lizards in the desert.
Every wood burning plant is opposed as it will cause deforestation and threaten species like the Indiana bat in Vermont.
Every natural gas fired plant is opposed as the pipeline construction requires the use of imminent domain.

When you get right down to it there is no place or type of power plant that the Greens are for but they still want the lights to come on when they flip the switch. With the liberals in power you can expect the entire electric infrastucture to decline as the debate dithers on for four to eight years which will put us past the shut down date of all the nuclear plants we now have on line. As they wont have made up their mind what to build to replace them much less build them major shortages will occur and Granny will freeze to death in the dark.

[bratticus]

Turns out it was called "We Will Freeze in the Dark" not "Will We Freeze In the Dark?"

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]TV: Timely Documentary Is a Lucid Hour Exploring Many Conservation Possibilities
By JOHN J.O'CONNOR / New York Times / April 12, 1977

Demonstrating that the major networks do not have a monopoly on solid documentaries aimed at a national audience, Capital Cities Communications is presenting one of the more lucid and practical hours television has devoted to the subject of energy. "We Will Freeze in the Dark" can be seen tonight at 8 on WNEW-TV.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sixtrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'I') went to an old plantation house museum once. It was very interesting to see what sustainable living without electricity looks like.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')outhern history is complex. For example, Jefferson Davis's former slave and business manager was quite successful. ... At that time, no Jew could have held such a position in the US government.