What would happen if....
Mar. 10th, 2008 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
not_hathorNOBODY switched over to Daylight Saving Time when our esteemed lawmakers decreed?
Recent studies have shown that instead of SAVING energy, like what was supposed to happen, energy usage has actually INCREASED during DST over the past ten years due to longer daylight hours and widespread AC use during the hotter months of the year!
Me, I'd gotten used to there being daylight (barely) in the mornings when I woke up (on those occasions when there actually was sunshine instead of precipitation-threatening clouds)- LOL!
But seriously, what if Congress declared DST and no one complied? Would BUSHCHENEY call out the National Guard (what's left of it, considering most of it got sent to Iraq)? Implement 'Emergency Domestic Terrorism' measures?
Something to ponder....
Recent studies have shown that instead of SAVING energy, like what was supposed to happen, energy usage has actually INCREASED during DST over the past ten years due to longer daylight hours and widespread AC use during the hotter months of the year!
Me, I'd gotten used to there being daylight (barely) in the mornings when I woke up (on those occasions when there actually was sunshine instead of precipitation-threatening clouds)- LOL!
But seriously, what if Congress declared DST and no one complied? Would BUSHCHENEY call out the National Guard (what's left of it, considering most of it got sent to Iraq)? Implement 'Emergency Domestic Terrorism' measures?
Something to ponder....
