*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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[baileyflower.livejournal.com]

likewise. one of the games I'd play as a child was to aim roman candles at the streetlights to trip the sensor and shut them off for a while.