What the hell is wrong with the people in Congress? It's bad enough that we have this stupid, outdated system of Daylight Saving Time, but why in hell would we extend it?
This is so stupid. Screwing with time only screws with people. We have more accidents, we get sick, we are less productive as we acclimate to time changes. I don't see how this will result in less energy use. We are becoming more and more of a 24-hour society. We have computers on in our home 24 hours a day. Anybody who has been on the road at 4 am knows that there are people up and about. There is a set amount of daylight at any given time of the year. There is no way they can legislate more daylight. If people want to utilize the existing daylight better, then isn't that their responsibility?
Let's just dump Daylight Saving Time altogether and stop this stupidity. Isn't there more important things like illegal aliens, wasteful government spending, etc. that congress should be worrying about?
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.
"Extending daylight-saving time makes sense, especially with skyrocketing energy costs," said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Michigan, who along with Rep. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, co-sponsored the measure.
The amendment was approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee that is putting together major parts of energy legislation likely to come up for a vote in the full House in the coming weeks.
"The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use," said Markey, who cited Transportation Department estimates that showed the two-month extension would save the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of oil a day.
The country uses about 20 million barrels of oil a day.
This is so stupid. Screwing with time only screws with people. We have more accidents, we get sick, we are less productive as we acclimate to time changes. I don't see how this will result in less energy use. We are becoming more and more of a 24-hour society. We have computers on in our home 24 hours a day. Anybody who has been on the road at 4 am knows that there are people up and about. There is a set amount of daylight at any given time of the year. There is no way they can legislate more daylight. If people want to utilize the existing daylight better, then isn't that their responsibility?
Let's just dump Daylight Saving Time altogether and stop this stupidity. Isn't there more important things like illegal aliens, wasteful government spending, etc. that congress should be worrying about?
Name: LaDonna
