Join the Resistance. Subtitled: Arizona Does It, Why Can’t I? Not “Springing” Anywhere in ‘09. So There.
I’ve been dreading this for weeks and I’m not content to just stew in silence this year. Nope. I’m just not doing it. Set your alls clocks for whatever time you’d like on Sunday. I ain’t gonna. This here’s my line in the sand: I’m a DST Conscientious Objector, henceforth know as “I’m now an Honorary Arizonan or Half a Hoosier.”
My hatred of this phenomenon isn’t new, and is quite possibly genetic, but really. I just can’t get behind the foolishness anymore. Plus it just makes it damn dark until 7 am.
Stupid. So who’s with me?
Oh yeah, here’s science-y backup if you care. I wrote this screed last year:
Since the passage of the Energy Security Act of 2005, extending Daylight Saving Time (DST) to eight months of the year, we were promised a reduction in fossil-fuel consumption by the equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil a day. That promise was based on data from 1974, when Richard Nixon moved the clocks ahead in the midst of an energy crisis. The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) officials even admit “the jury is still out on the potential national energy savings.”
And! There’s this too!
“Our main finding is that — contrary to the policy’s intent — D.S.T. increases residential electricity demand.”
So. Are you with me? Or do you just hate the planet and rationality?
