Switch Off Lights

(Fox News) - Al Gore's idea to have everyone watching his upcoming Live Earth concerts switch off their lights at the same time has been vetoed by the people who run Britain's electrical grid.

They say that if all those people turned the lights back on around the same time, it could cause a power surge that might overload circuits and endanger hospital patients on life support machines.

Gore has also dropped the idea of making live appearances at concerts in the U.S. and England because of criticism over the gas-guzzling jet flight that would be necessary.