*boggles*

[conuly]

"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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[strangelette.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* I just emailed that around. My favorite is the continual assertion that electricity has anything to do with oil. The only time it has anything to do with oil is during the absolute peak load time on the hottest/coldest days of the year when some power companies use diesel generators for an hour or so. The US has no coal shortage so it's absolutely irrelevant how much oil it would save. So, yes, efficiency! What you said.

[conuly]

Peak time... hottest days...

So, what you're saying is we'd benefit by having less people out and about when there's more sun, since it's cooler at night anyway?

[strangelette.livejournal.com]

Ooh, see I was so caught up in my electricity ≠ oil rant I didn't even think about it that way. That could be true - and the potential for shutting large office building A/C systems down earlier is always good because the urban heat island effect can push the hottest part of the day later.

(I have a test on energy and the environment in 45 minutes and this is the closest I've come to studying this morning - Gold Star for conuly :)