Okay, y’all – your friendly internet reminder service, again – set your clocks ahead on Sunday morning at 2:00 AM. Hell, do it now, for all I care.
But riddle me this, internets: this whole time change (and doing it two or three weeks early especially) is supposed to save energy?
How does that work?
I mean, I’m not trying to be difficult, but nobody has ever accused me of being the sharpest knife in the drawer. From what I can tell:
motor vehicles, surely one of the biggest (if not the biggest) users of energy in America, they use the same amount whether the sun is up or down, right?
If I’m at work, the lights are on and so is the computer / copier / coffeepot / climate control. Doesn’t matter if it’s day or night. In fact, a lot of that crap is on all the time, because people are at work around the clock.
Streetlights work on a sensor and come on at night (or if they are on a timer, certainly that can be adjusted if they need to save electricity)
Now, we live in ranch country, with some farms tossed in, and if we’re changing our clocks to help them save energy, I think it’s a mistake. If they need daylight to work, they will do it, regardless of what time it says on the clock.
What am I missing? Really, I’m curious. I’d like to know, and I probably won’t be able to sleep until I understand it.
It’s all about the dollar. I heard a piece on the radio yesterday mentioning how much additional revenue the golf and grilling industries earned when we went from 6 to 7 moths of DST 20 years ago. The candy makers are apparently very happy to have Halloween included in the DST span now that we’re up to 8 months.
rabble-rouser. bringing logic into play. sheesh!
just go along with the rest of the sheeple already, m’kay? 😉
We should get rid of the whole thing. Indiana (until last year, boohoo!), Arizona, and Hawaii don’t follow that stupid “daylight savings time” and no one ever said those states are wasting lots of energy. I hate the time change with the passion of a thousand white hot suns. You have the same amount of daylight no matter what freaking hour number you assign to it. It’s so illogical, it drives me nuts and I’m not even that logical of a person in the first place. Okay I better go make breakfast and quit ranting.
I know I am totally going to forget and show up an hour late for work tomorrow.
I JUST KNOW IT!
Hell, I don’t know what it saves, if it saves anything at all…..All I know is, I will wake up 47 times tonight wondering if I will be able to get up on time tomorrow morning……
An ALARM you say?
I don’t need no steeenkingggg alarm!
Have a happy my friend!
The basic essentials to the premise is that households use less energy (predominantly in way of lighting your home), because daylight extends later into the day, and (theoretically) you needs to use lights for less time before you retire for the evening.
This worked in 1941 (when it was first instituted for WWII) because the biggest consumption of power in the home was the light bulb. But with computers, and furnaces, and refrigerators and as you point out so many other devices in the home that require constant electricity regardless of the amount of light outside, the benefits are marginal at best.
But it sounded good to the current administration, while claiming to be doing something about the skyrocketing prices of Gas and Electricity back in 2005 when they put the new rules into effect, and it made a nice press release for the President to tout. Even if it didn’t do what it claimed… he could say he was doing “something”
Sleep easy.