This is of interest for me so I'm moving this set of postings from the last drumbeat to start a recent thread:

Leannan's link above: I told you so: Daylight Savings Time doesn't save energy

geewiz on March 12, 2007 - 1:37am | Permalink | Subthread ^

Daylight savings time being used earlier, does it help or hurt?

http://blogs.wsj.com/energy/

Uhhh, not really!

Substrate on March 12, 2007 - 6:57am | Permalink | Subthread ^

Just as a personal observation, I've found that I've started having to use my headlights again in the morning, and other people are using theirs as well. Though basically inconsequential at the personal level, running headlights does take energy and adds up when taken across the fleet. Also, with the "extra" daylight available after work I've found myself inclined to go hiking, and according to a local news piece, golfing activity picks up when DST rolls around. I'm guessing other people have similar inclinations to get out and do things with the extra daylight. Get enough inclinations together and you've got increased activity, increased activity leading to increased driving, consumption. I'm wondering if that's going to be significant. It should be interesting to see what the weekly gasoline inventory report looks like when it comes out for this coming week.

I got this in late last night. Just wanted to post it again.
Having been at this topic for 9 years, I am certain that short of collapse there will be no significant movement toward plan B. The cluelessness of the MSM is so overwhelming as to leave one breathless. I took a break today and watched the coverage of the fires in California on Fox news. One of their reporters, a Trace Ghallager, made the idiot of the day award for me when he said, " Well the fire fighters caught a break today, as with daylight savings there will be an extra hour of daylight to fight the fire." Maybe we could get president Bush to declare an emergency Daylight savings for Orange County so the sun would not go down until the fire is out. Mind boggling!
The verbal exchange between Robert and Jeffrey is interesting but meaningless. The Saudi peak will happen when it does, the world peak will happen when it does, and NO ONE will prepare for it, other than a few lunatics like us, on this site and others similar to it.

Treeman, you had better hope that you don't have any forest fires on Nov 4th, when there'll be one less hour of daylight!

the extended dst is congress's effort to make it look like they are doing something about our dependence on foreign oil. i suppose it will make a small difference. as far as i know, however congress is still endorsing the $$,$$$ tax credits on $$$,$$$ suv's.