On 03/26/2012 09:56 AM, Josh Fisher wrote:
> On 3/26/2012 6:43 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Unfortunately, as much as most of us hate daylight savings time, it's
>> not going away any time soon, because politicians love it, because
>> chambers of commerce love it, because brick-and-mortar store merchants
>> think it makes people spend more money.
>
> Politicians are, for some reason, convinced that it saves energy.
Despite thirty years of serendipitous controlled-study in Eastern
Indiana showing that the opposite is true. Not to mention the
twice-yearly disruption to everyone's schedules, and the twice-yearly
spike in traffic and traffic-vs-pedestrian accidents right after each
clock change.
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