11-24-2008, 05:19 PM
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 !
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 !