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Daylight Savings Time Savings Disputed
GroundReport.com ^ | March 19, 2008 | Richard Cooper

Posted on 03/20/2008 8:04:51 PM PDT by lpnykahuna

Some lawmakers and others have advocated year-round DST in order to save energy....As policymakers and citizens consider year-round Daylight Savings Time let us investigate, analyze and debate whether it is justified based on the evidence rather than aspirations.

(Excerpt) Read more at groundreport.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Miscellaneous; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: dst; electricitysavings; energy; energywaste
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It is really courageous to criticize conventional wisdom on energy and the environment.
1 posted on 03/20/2008 8:04:52 PM PDT by lpnykahuna
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To: lpnykahuna

Congress continues to show its stupidity, its weakness and its malfeasance. It cannot and does not want to produce and sensible, and responsible energy policy that would assure America of the its energy needs in a safe manner, and reduce our dependence on foreign sources.....

No, instead they just want us to turn light bulbs off sooner. Our great, magnificent Congress in its finest hour.


2 posted on 03/20/2008 8:07:26 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: lpnykahuna

We have year round NON-Daylight savings time here in Arizona... I am the same time as my Grandma in Oregon half the time and the other half the same time as my Mom in Colorado...


3 posted on 03/20/2008 8:07:53 PM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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To: lpnykahuna

Daylight savings time is like cutting off one end of a blanket and sewing it on the other end in order to make the blanket longer.


4 posted on 03/20/2008 8:08:49 PM PDT by magslinger (cranky right-winger)
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To: lpnykahuna

I don’t care. I like it.


5 posted on 03/20/2008 8:10:05 PM PDT by nuconvert (There are bad people in the pistachio business.)
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To: lpnykahuna

We’re all screwed up, our pets are all screwed up, bugs don’t know when to come out, our kids are cranky, flowers are not blooming, Easter is too early
What in thunderation is goin’ on?

OOh. Congressional Morons perhaps?...
NAH.. couldn’t be!


6 posted on 03/20/2008 8:11:16 PM PDT by acapesket (never had a vote count in all my years here)
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To: lpnykahuna

“...let us investigate, analyze and debate whether it is justified...”

Reasonable question.

Americans are like zombies two months out of the year.


7 posted on 03/20/2008 8:14:13 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: lpnykahuna
Food in your gas tank...

screw shaped light bulbs...

another f'n patch for windows...

As Mark Twain said, "If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress?"

8 posted on 03/20/2008 8:16:30 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: lpnykahuna
DST year round would be fine by me. The extra hour of daylight at the end of the day is far more useful. The down side would be having to wait until 9 AM for sunrise in December. The argument about "kids waiting in the dark" for a school bus doesn't play here. They are waiting at 7 AM. Even on standard time that means it is dark in December. Playing th e other end, if we didn't have DST, the sun would rise at 3:47 AM in June. There isn't much going on between 4 AM and 7 AM in most places.
9 posted on 03/20/2008 8:18:10 PM PDT by Myrddin
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ok, I'll be annoying...its Daylight Saving Time....lose the "s"
10 posted on 03/20/2008 8:18:29 PM PDT by SC_Republican (Has it really been THAT long??)
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To: lpnykahuna

I’m in favor because I’m not a good morning person and now live just west of the time-line. I prefer a constant switch.


11 posted on 03/20/2008 8:19:55 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: nuconvert

same here. - in windy cold NE no less. Relatives in Maine consider it a Holy Day.


12 posted on 03/20/2008 8:20:09 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: AzNASCARfan
We used to be like you here in Indy. I HATE DST here. Actually, I just hate having to change clocks. But we are closer to Central time zone, so Eastern DST for us, is really double, time and a half, at least, DST for us. It SUCKS.

Did I mention I hate it?

Pick a G*D* time and stick with it year round!

Our RINO Gov. lost my vote over it.

13 posted on 03/20/2008 8:22:03 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: lpnykahuna

I am all for full-time daylight savings — or full-time standard time — whatever as long as we set it one way and stop this nonsense of adjusting the time twice a year.


14 posted on 03/20/2008 8:22:10 PM PDT by Scutter
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To: SC_Republican

Don’t you have to wonder how an error like this could make it past the copy editors, etc.?


15 posted on 03/20/2008 8:22:43 PM PDT by jwparkerjr (Sigh . . .)
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To: lpnykahuna

I think DST leads to more deaths.

Those of us that live to the west of our jobs drive into the sun in the morning. The sun gets high enough that it’s not just an inch off the road and the hood as you’re driving uphill. Then DST comes and we get 2 more weeks of driving into the sun again. I know it leads to accidents. Not the least of which is drowsy drivers in the spring.

End it. End it now, keep the DST time and be done with it. I _HATE_ the change.


16 posted on 03/20/2008 8:23:30 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: warsaw44

Lol. I like these extra couple of weeks they’ve added


17 posted on 03/20/2008 8:23:39 PM PDT by nuconvert (There are bad people in the pistachio business.)
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To: lpnykahuna

We could always return to fully local time and rejoin the 17th century. The every little town and burg would have it’s own time.


18 posted on 03/20/2008 8:24:39 PM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: lpnykahuna

Noon is when the sun is at it’s highest point. I don’t care what the gubmit says.


19 posted on 03/20/2008 8:28:53 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?)
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To: magslinger
Daylight savings time is like cutting off one end of a blanket and sewing it on the other end in order to make the blanket longer.

That is so true.

Many people believe daylight savings time actually makes the daylight longer.
20 posted on 03/20/2008 8:30:54 PM PDT by TomGuy
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