Fall Back: Putting the Lie to Daylight Savings Time

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It appears, alas, that the Bush Administrationโ€™s single effort to address the Climate Change crisis is not just inadequate, but counterproductive. The vague gesture in question is the Bush proposal to extend daylight savings time three weeks later into the winter season, purportedly to shift the daysโ€™ available light toward evening, thereby preservingย energy by reducing the need for electric lightย after school andย work.

But in his new book, Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Savings Time, Tufts University Professor Michael Downing reports that Daylight Savings Time has never actually saved energy. On the contrary, people use more energy in the morning โ€“ getting up and preparing for work/school in the dark โ€“ and more in the evening, because they are much more likely toย drive around to evening functions. Accordingly, the people most in favour of Daylight Savings Time tend to be sports organizations (especially golf courses), department stores (sales go up measurably during DST) and Bigย Energy.

Imagine: Which of those groups might have influence in the White House?ย 

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