Have you all been hearing about Washington's plans on extending daylight savings to help lower energy costs?
Congress proposed that everyone spring ahead the first Sunday in March (instead of April) and it would continue through the last Sunday in November (instead of ending in October).
The Pros:
Proponents such as Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., point to studies conducted in the mid-1970s that suggested changing the clock reduced overall demand by about 1 percent each day, comparable to about 100,000 barrels of crude oil a day.
The extra daylight helps motorists driving in the evenings, when car traffic is the heaviest, says David Prerau, a former government researcher and author of the book Seize the Daylight.
The Cons:
Critics fear extending daylight-saving time to nearly nine months starting next year will have school children standing out at dark school bus stops. In Houston, for instance, the sun would not rise in late November until nearly 8 a.m.
Airlines worry they won't be able to keep their much-coveted slots at foreign airports, since the rest of the world won't be changing along with the United States. Currently, the nation's daylight-saving calendar is only one week different from that of Europe. Under this proposal, the United States would have seven weeks more of daylight-saving time than Europe.
Carriers also pointed out that, under the proposal, the time would usually change on the last day of the long Thanksgiving Day weekend, already one the busiest travel days of the year. That's all the airlines would need, they say — more confused customers on what's already a manic day at the nation's airports.
Dairy farmers would prefer to have no time change at all, since schedule changes disorient their cows. "It doesn't really matter if it's standard time or daylight-saving time, it just needs to stay put," said John Cowan, executive director of the Texas Association of Dairymen in Grapevine.
Reference: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3273643
I think it's doomed to failure because it will cause the end of civilization as we know it. Cow's will stop making milk cuz their disoriented. If people don't get milk then their bones will be weak. Everyone will be midgets cuz their bones don't grow. Then everyone will die of a broken hip and the human lifespan will drop to like 40 years. Eventually we'll all go the way of the dinosaurs....
What do ya'll think?
Congress proposed that everyone spring ahead the first Sunday in March (instead of April) and it would continue through the last Sunday in November (instead of ending in October).
The Pros:
Proponents such as Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., point to studies conducted in the mid-1970s that suggested changing the clock reduced overall demand by about 1 percent each day, comparable to about 100,000 barrels of crude oil a day.
The extra daylight helps motorists driving in the evenings, when car traffic is the heaviest, says David Prerau, a former government researcher and author of the book Seize the Daylight.
The Cons:
Critics fear extending daylight-saving time to nearly nine months starting next year will have school children standing out at dark school bus stops. In Houston, for instance, the sun would not rise in late November until nearly 8 a.m.
Airlines worry they won't be able to keep their much-coveted slots at foreign airports, since the rest of the world won't be changing along with the United States. Currently, the nation's daylight-saving calendar is only one week different from that of Europe. Under this proposal, the United States would have seven weeks more of daylight-saving time than Europe.
Carriers also pointed out that, under the proposal, the time would usually change on the last day of the long Thanksgiving Day weekend, already one the busiest travel days of the year. That's all the airlines would need, they say — more confused customers on what's already a manic day at the nation's airports.
Dairy farmers would prefer to have no time change at all, since schedule changes disorient their cows. "It doesn't really matter if it's standard time or daylight-saving time, it just needs to stay put," said John Cowan, executive director of the Texas Association of Dairymen in Grapevine.
Reference: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3273643
I think it's doomed to failure because it will cause the end of civilization as we know it. Cow's will stop making milk cuz their disoriented. If people don't get milk then their bones will be weak. Everyone will be midgets cuz their bones don't grow. Then everyone will die of a broken hip and the human lifespan will drop to like 40 years. Eventually we'll all go the way of the dinosaurs....
What do ya'll think?
