Posted
4/08/2005 05:11:00 PM
by Douglas
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.