Daylight Savings Time SAVES ON OIL

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[Recall]

Interesting site but here is what really caught my eye there:

(it's close to the bottom of the page)

Oil Conservation

Following the 1973 oil embargo, the U.S. Congress extended Daylight Saving Time to 8 months, rather than the normal six months. During that time, the U.S. Department of Transportation found that observing Daylight Saving Time in March and April saved the equivalent in energy of 10,000 barrels of oil each day - a total of 600,000 barrels in each of those two years. Likewise, in 1986, Daylight Saving Time moved from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in April. No change was made to the ending date of the last Sunday in October. Adding the entire month of April to Daylight Saving Time is estimated to save the U.S. about 300,000 barrels of oil each year.

[Xenalyte]

And to sap our precious bodily fluids. Don’t forget about those.

[Recall]

I agree, and just you wait.. after the election we wil be told our vote was for comprehensive immigration reform.

I swear it’s a conspiracy for globalism.

[discostu]

It’s the recent change in how Indiana handles DST that makes it a useful case study. Up until very recently parts of Indiana didn’t do DST and now the whole state does, thus comparison can be made that are over a short enough time period to rule out things other than DST (technology, variant weather).

Of course the funny part is that AZ uses the exact same “it saves energy” reasoning to not do DST that the pro-DST people are always using. Somebody must be wrong. And if you pay attention to the lighting habits of the world you’ll see it’s the pro-DST people, lights tend to be on where people are doing, day time, night time, doesn’t matter, the lights are on if somebody is home (or working, it’s really the business space that burns more electricity).

[Semper911]

You made me laugh.

[Drago]

Sorry....I work with computers, and I hate the new DST rules...they required I reprogram over 100 of them.

[Recall]

I’ve been reading most farmers don’t want it..so there’s the agiculture lobby against it, maybe that’s the real case in Indiana. I don’t know what is true but I think if the animals can adjust to 8 months of it they could probably go for a year of it.

Personally, I love it.

[Recall]

sorry..got you beat. I homeschool.

[Recall]

but we still get our weekends, right? lol

[Recall]

What does it do to the cows?

[RightWhale]

The oil saving, if it is not just a blip down in the noise level, is essentially nothing.

Fairbanks is essentially on Daylight Saving Time all winter and when going to Daylight Saving Time as our Masters decree gets to be two hours off local sun time. It works, though, since it gets to be light around the clock and we must be saving up a lot of daylight at that rate.

[Recall]

Your in Fairbanks,Alaska! I hear it’s beautiful.
Btw, what do you pay for gas? Gas is $3.09 a gallon where I am.

[RightWhale]

Gasoline is the same here. Everything else costs more, but we’re good on gasoline.

[Teacher317]

Don’t tell the Indiana board folk this... they’re STILL whining about the passage of DST over a year ago, as if it’s a the biggest problem the state has.

[Teacher317]

When Hoosiers opposed DST, one of the reasons they gave was that it would "annoys the cows" (source)... as if the farmers couldn't figure out how to wake up earlier, or actually give the cows the benefit of the doubt and actually believe that milk production wouldn't fail because the cows were aggravated by the conundrum.