3 Then Congress said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
4 And Congress saw the light, that it was good; and Congress divided the light from the darkness.
5 Congress called the light Day, and the darkness They called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
"Extending daylight-saving time makes sense, especially with skyrocketing energy costs...The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use."
So saith Rep. Fred Upton, R-Michigan, and Rep. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, co-sponsors of an amendment to some energy legislation that would extend daylight-saving time to include March and November. Yes, they apparently believe that by passing this law, they will increase the quantity of daylight.
My favorite part was,
ReplyDelete"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.
WOW! 10,000 Barrels of oil a DAY! Why, this should be happening earlier, dammit!
But then the article continued,
The country uses about 20 million barrels of oil a day.
Um... oh $h!+... ummm... nevermind
What's so funny about that? That's a whole 0.05%! Every day! For two whole months! Why, by my calculations, that would reduce our total oil consumption for the whole year by a whopping 0.008%!
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