Stay home - watch it on TV instead

The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree will be lit for the first time this holiday season tonight. Remember to bring a polo mallet with you if you, unfortunately, find yourself in midtown.

Thousands of poor souls will gather for the 88th annual Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting. Remember to bring a polo mallet with you, if you unfortunately, find yourself in midtown



Do you really want to be stuck in the middle of potential Darwin Award winners and their children who should be forced to play in traffic? So once again, I'm giving native New Yorkers a gentle reminder - watch last year's lighting here.



This year, John Legend, Lea Michele, Idina Menzel, Derek and Julianne Hough, Gwen Stefani, and a superabundance of others, as well as, the refugees from overbooked ancient hotels in the holy land are involved this year.

Exert extreme caution!


Today's theme - Christmas Light Shows:





According to the Pew Research Center, approximately 90 percent of Americans celebrate Christmas. This means there are approximately 105,000,000 households in the United States that celebrate the holiday. While not every home in the U.S. that celebrates Christmas decorates with extravagant lighting, many of them do.

This means that the United States has the capacity to use more than double the amount of electricity that Ecuador and Cuba use together in a single year. Locally, New Jersey uses 43,637,794 MW over the holiday season. The entire state can use about the same amount of electricity for their lights as all of Hong Kong (43,140,000 MW) uses in a year. New York uses 99,521,135 MW over the holiday season. Or, just slightly less than Vietnam uses in energy over an entire year (101,000,000 MW).





Today, it cost the country $3,780,000,000 per day and $170,103,150,000 for the whole 45-day holiday season. This would have Americans using 31 million MW of electricity just on Christmas lights. An average American home can use 42,690 watts (43 kW) of electricity per hour in order to power their home Christmas lights, or 301 kWh per day, with the lights only being on seven hours a night. This comes to 13,545 kW or 13.5 MW per home over the holiday season, costing a typical household about $11 extra a month to light their household Christmas decorations. Some extreme household decorators can spend an extra $2,000 to light their displays!





It's nice to see that the public is helping support the public utilities. You know that they are barely eking out a living.



Demand Euphoria!