The other day, I wrote about the highway signs saying “Flex Your Power” and using energy. Someone from the company that runs the “Flex Your Power” campaign (they’re a marketing/PR firm) commented that the signs served a valuable purpose. In my opinion, stating the obvious isn’t valuable. In any case, neither my wife nor I saw the signs lit up yesterday. Is it a coincidence that after my post they were turned off or was it that the energy usage dropped? While the energy usage did drop (drop in temperature), shouldn’t people still conserve energy?

I wonder how much money the state saved by turning off the signs. We’ve always been told to turn off the lights when we leave a room; now CalTrans is turning off the signs when it has nothing useful to say. (I’d be more than happy to accept a check for a portion of the money saved.)