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Obama Is Time Shifter! - karsen - 11-24-2008
President-elect Obama wants to get rid of daylight saving time in the United States to conserve energy.
http://www.greendaily.com/2008/11/21/obama-looks-to-axe-daylight-time-nyt-explains-why/
Oddly the wording of the article has changed from Obama "wants to" to "should." At any rate, I think it's a great idea.
Re: Obama Is Time Shifter! - lafinfil - 11-24-2008
That would be fine with me
We didn't have to put up with it until last year when our governor shoved it down out throat.
A study in Indiana, a state that recently started DST, showed an overall increase of 1 percent in residential electricity
use with occasional increases of 2 to 4 percent in late spring and early fall. So much for conserving energy.
While DST is great for reducing in-door lighting, the shift in time increases the demand for air conditioning
during hot summer evenings and increased heating in early spring and late fall mornings. The energy suckers
of heat and A/C could eliminate any savings from reduced lighting and, as the Indiana study showed, actually
increase electricity consumption.
See - we told ya so !
Re: Obama Is Time Shifter! - karsen - 11-24-2008
You Hoosiers are all purposely leaving lights on to try and prove the rest of us wrong!
Re: Obama Is Time Shifter! - $tevie - 11-24-2008
CRAP! I love Daylight Saving Time. I want it year 'round. If there is anything I hate, it is coming out of the office and it's pitch dark already. It's already cold, does it have to be dark as well? So depressing.
Say it ain't so, Barack, say it ain't so!
Re: Obama Is Time Shifter! - samintx - 11-24-2008
I hate DST! down with it.
Re: Obama Is Time Shifter! - mick e - 11-24-2008
DST is a PITA.
Re: Obama Is Time Shifter! - Gutenberg - 11-24-2008
Sorry, $tevie, but Daylight Saving Time is the REASON for it being dark when you leave work in the early fall. Fall back, remember? You set your clocks back an hour. So suddenly it gets dark at six o'clock, in standard time, instead of five o'clock, daylight saving time.
Re: Obama Is Time Shifter! - $tevie - 11-24-2008
No, that's not right. It gets dark at five instead of six. I go through this depression every fall so I know I am right.
Re: Obama Is Time Shifter! - $tevie - 11-24-2008
Actually, I want double daylight saving time. Stay light until ten o'clock in the summer. I hate the dark, it just means the muggers can start work earlier.
Re: Obama Is Time Shifter! - lafinfil - 11-24-2008
Stay light until ten o'clock in the summer
See that's is the problem here on the back end of the eastern time zone
It truly is still light at !0:00 p.m.