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Re: [RC] More Daylight to ride! - heidi

When people go through the ritual of moving their clocks forward each
spring ushering in daylight-saving time, they're also saving energy -
the equivalent of thousands of barrels of oil, in fact. Congress says a
good thing can be made better.

I've never understood the logic of this.  The drive to and from work is
the same distance under daylight savings time.  I heat my house for the
same 24 hours under daylight savings time.  The work day is still the same
length under daylight savings time.  I know I don't save a single penny on
fuel or electricity under daylight savings time.  The only change is that
as the days get longer, they also get warmer--about the time that we
change to daylight savings time.  But the ambient temperature doesn't
change just because we set our clocks ahead--that change occurs with or
without daylight savings time.

And to keep this on topic, it only affects your time to ride if you work
for somebody else who sets your work hours by the clock--if you are
self-employed, it is still the same amount of daylight that one would have
without setting the clocks ahead...

Heidi



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