Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday
If you were a victim who was injured in America's deadliest train accident and laid up in the hosptial, would you want to wake up to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa visiting you for his latest photo opp? Curious to know your answer and Michael Trujillo and Jimmy Blackman are not eligible to play. (And for no particular reason we'll throw in Matt Szabo's name to fire up the third floor Google Alerts.)
Compact fluorescent lights are a great thing. They use less electricity and last longer that regular light bulbs. Indeed, I replaced three sixty watt bulbs in one of my bathrooms with one CFL and it's lasted three times as long now. That being said it makes absolutely no sense and is an incredible waste that the DWP is going to hand deliver over two million of the bulbs by dropping bags of them on the front doors of homes in Los Angeles. How much will this cost? How many will actually get used? How many will get stepped on? I understand the DWP needs to get folks to use the bulbs to reduce electricity use (then they'll raise our rates again to make up for the lost revenue) but couldn't they just put a note in everyone's bill encouraging to go out and buy their own?
Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin got a big laugh watching with reporters Tina Fey's impression on Saturday Night Live. But it turns out that Palin beat Fey to the punch in the impersonation department - Palin aides say that last year the Alaska governor dressed as Fey for Halloween.
How will Britney Spears spend New Year's Eve? Reports are she's planning to stage an Elvis 68 style comeback special with a show and record an album at the Pearl Theatre in Las Vegas.
Labels: britney spears, dwp, Jimmy Blackman, matt szabo, mayor antonio villaraigosa, michael trujillo, sarah palin, tina fey, walter moore
Posted by Michael Higby @ 9/16/2008 03:00:00 AM
11 Comments:
DWP could make better use of it's time and money by including a coupon for a free compact fluorescent light, instead of using rate-payers' money to hand-deliver these items. I wonder which "genius(es)" in DWP came up with this idea? With all the money they're collecting, shouldn't we be expecting them to improve and update their infrastructure instead?
Michael Finnegan
CD-5
Like it really means anything that Sarah Palin dressed up for Halloween. Give us a break!
Although I haven't looked at the numbers for this particular program, there are times when it is cost-efficient for a utility to pay directly for conservation measures.
If, for example, a utility can avoid the need to build a $100 million power plant by spending $10 million to insulate the homes, replace bulbs, update appliances, etc., then programs like that can actually wind up saving rate-payers money.
I'm not saying this particular program makes sense. It may or may not. But it's something where you want to keep an open mind and look at the numbers.
I learned this, by the way, when I had a summer job with a think-tank studying "weatherization" programs in snowy states. Turns out Minnesota -- or maybe it was Michigan -- was the only state that actually tracked the expenditures and savings, and controlled for changes in the weather.
5:47
It means that the end of the world is near. Imagine George Bush dressing up as Howie Mandel, or what you would say if Villaraigosa dressed up as the Frito Bandito.
Doug McIntyre had a great line this AM about Villaraigosa spending City time to get his wax statue made up.
He wasn't sure tourists would be excited about seeing a wax figure of the Mayor of Los Angeles however if they put a wick in the Mayor's head he could be the emergency candle if the power went out.
9:03 - If he stuck a sombrero on his head and grew a moustache, he would look like the Frito Bandito.
Five million for these effing light bulbs???? Where is the outrage????
I will be tossing mine in the trash, as I have been hording incandescent bulbs for the last year! I now have at least 4000 incandescent bulbs in my basement!
I will NEVER use one of those effing hideous green monster bulbs. Has anyone been reading about the side effects of these floourescent bulbs...like seizures, headaches, mercury poisoning, etc.???? Not to mention the fact that they make your skin look a ghoulish green shade, and the room takes on a hospital room pallor! They are horrible!!!!
I heard that Walmart had a shipment of 100,000 and could not sell ONE of them! I guess that's why everyone is being forced to use them!!!
That remindes me, I better get some more incandescents today...I won't stop til I'm up to around 10,000 of them!
Angelenos need a mayor who will spend 89% of his/her time on official city business and 11% on traveling, press conferences, meeting with special interest groups, etc.
Mikey Finn, You should have seen him in his pre-politician days.
One who did.
4:23, I'm not surprised. Didn't he wear a head rag (or hairnet) every so often?
2:11, your whole post doesn't even make sense.
You brag about hoarding your CFL'S? Cuc-fucking-koo, man. You are a certified cuckoo.
I don't know what green pallor you are referring to, but I just spent tons of money replacing my recessed lamps with CFL'S and there is no green and I'm saving tons of money.
When I get some from the DWP, I'll put them in the porch lights and hall lights, etc.
You could probably donate them to someone although you don't appear to have a donating bone in your body. More of a bitch and run kind of poster. And definitely not an environmentalist either?
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