stackyFACTSKeeping the dark scary shadows away is a surprisingly massive line item. Powering, maintaining, and upgrading millions of streetlamps across a grid eats up a huge percentage of urban utility budgets, basically taxing citizens purely so they can see where they are walking at night.
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