Lance pointed out this article to me this morning:
Lawmakers crafting energy legislation approved an amendment Wednesday to extend daylight-saving time by two months, having it start on the first Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday in November.
I don't know about this. If it really does save us money (energy), then why don't we just go all the way? Let’s just make daylight savings time standard. I don't really see what the point of going off it is... I am already used to it, so let's just save the energy and keep daylight savings time for good.
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OH MAN another Amber post...
Okay. The original reasoning for daylight savings was so that 1) the AARP (senior citizens) could drive more at night, 2) The National Softball Association (I don't know what their initials are. NSA? eh) wanted more evening light without having to use the field lights if they even had them to begin with, 3) The National Barbeque Association (haha a better NBA!) wanted more evening time so people *gasp* could barbeque more. There were a few other groups in the mix originally, but those were the ones I could remember offhand.
I never heard it to be something to cause a saving in electricity.
And I think they're missing a key factor in all this: the days are shorter in the winter time. So.. really, is it causing us to have more "usable" daylight? Probably not, it just is going to make the sun come up sooner and set earlier in Nov and March.
*shrug. Because thats what I do*
"OH MAN another Amber post..."
But i like amber posts. ^_^
Anyways i have heard about the AARP, NSA, NBA, ect making the daylight savings, but i have not really seen any reliable evidence about that... But yeah there are only so many sunlight hours, so i don't think it will save that much fuel. (They said 10K barrels a day, but i don't know if that is alot of not...)
CNN says that we go off of DST in the winters 'cause during the winter, the fuel saved during the day would be offset by the fuel used in the morning because it's still dark.
It had to do with the war.
So if keeping daylight savings time is a wash during the winter, why don't we just keep it since having to switch times is what sucks about having it.
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