*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.

Comments

[conuly]

Many people get screwed up much more easily than you do. That's why both times changes, in fall and spring, are linked to an increase in car accidents.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Oh I can understand that I adjust to the change easily and not all, but I still can't see how it would be such a huge problem that affects you for weeks. The normal recovery time for jetlag is one hour a day and I don't get why this should be any different from one hour jetlag (and as I say, no one I know even considers hopping across one timezone as a jetlagable experience.)