The Clocks They Are A-Changin'

Trying to control time to feel important and they’re accomplishing something, congress critters move the big hand on the clock back and forth for the nonsensical reason of creating more daylight.

Of course the observation is just thrown out there that this is to save energy, stated as fact when there’s no evidence to support it. There’s new evidence to support there may actually an increase in energy usage during daylight savings time.

Up until a couple years ago, only 15 of Indiana’s 92 counties changed their clocks. Then their state politicians forced all the counties to change their clocks. This provided a lot of data to true scientists, not the ones that believe stuff and form a consensus, to actually measure if there was a decrease in energy usage.

Ooooops. It turned out energy usage goes up. Researchers found that households spent and additional $8.6 million in electricity bills. Turns out folks are getting home when it’s still hotter out than when following the natural order of things, so air conditioners are run more. To be valid, studies need to be repeated with the same result. The same study was done in Australia with the same results. Daylight savings time increased energy usage.

Without any supporting data, a politician advocating for daylight savings time, Indiana Rep. Julia Carson stated as fact daylight saving time would save "over $7 million annually in electricity rates alone". Of course politicians, on any subject, always state a piece of legislation will save X amount over X amount of years, and the whatever legislation always becomes a money pit citizens have to pony up for.

The recent change making daylight savings time last longer, adding three weeks at the beginning and one week at the end, was proposed by Reps. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts and Fred Upton of Michigan, and was accepted by their fellow congress critters. Markey says he has studies that show "less crime, fewer traffic fatalities, more recreation time and increased economic activity" because of moving the big hand on our clocks. The thing about politicians citing studies is they find the ones that support their belief.

These knuckleheads want to control when the sun comes up and goes down. This legislation won’t change, even if a dozen more studies prove it costs citizens more money when they move the clocks’ big hand around.


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