Quote Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy View Post
Thats simply answered by a bit of common sense in reality.

How many shops are there where you live and by how much are they outnumbered by residential dwellings.

What year were said residential dwellings and business mostly constructed in the same area.

These two questions will answer a lot of your concerns.
Ok I understand the first one, number of housing and subsiquent power usage far outweighs number of shops but the second confuses me.
Also it doesnt really help much seeing as these 9-5 shops have thier lights on at full blast, all night, for no apparant reason, the only one I could think of is attracting attention for advertisment purposes and that really becomes moot after midnight.