*boggles*

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"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.

YOU DON'T GET MORE DAYLIGHT! You just shift the clock so that you're more likely to be out during the daylight. Do you want to save oil? Make laws so that friggin' streetlights aren't on at 10am! All the time! Make laws so that government offices use the most energy efficient bulbs, and don't turn on the lights when they're unnecessary.

And stop with the stupid daylight savings scam. Evil thing.

Edit: You know, what they ought to do is have the streetlights on those non-timers they have, so they turn on when there's a certain amount of darkness, not at a specific time. Ooh, and they could even set it up so that they light up a different amount depending on how dark it is. That'd be cool. And then you wouldn't walk down a street at noon and see streetlights on unless it was very cloudy out. I hate that.

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[stejcruetekie.livejournal.com]

Maybe Staten Island is just a weird place, because the other four boroughs of NYC sure don't have this problem with the street lamps. Occasionally I'll see a lamp here or there, which usually means a broken photoelectric sensor. Hardly a big deal. Also, the type of bulbs used in street lamps generally cannot have varying brightness - they work through a gas conversion that has to be at a minimum temperature.

The government *should* be more energy efficient, yes, but the vast majority of energy use is from the private sector, which is why changing the times is the easiest way of having *everyone* alter their energy use.