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Friday, April 08, 2005


Since no one can come up with a good reason why we still use Daylight Savings Time in 47 states in this country, congress wants to extend it.
Lawmakers crafting energy legislation approved an amendment Wednesday to extend daylight-saving time by two months, having it start on the first Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday in November.

"Extending daylight-saving time makes sense, especially with skyrocketing energy costs," said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Michigan, who along with Rep. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, co-sponsored the measure.

The country uses about 20 million barrels of oil a day.
Whatever. I guess Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts looked around the highways at all the SUVs and saw how concerned Americans are about conserving fuel and decided to do something about it.

Like most people, I enjoy the extra daylight at the end of the day in the summer, but I'm sick of changing my clocks twice a year. Why not just set it one place and leave it?

But I know who isn't happy about this measure. Cell-phone companies. They'll have to push back their "night-time" hour start time to 11 pm if this goes through.



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