Daylight Savings Time Increases Energy Use In Indiana

enbody writes "The Freakonomics Blog at NYTimes.com reports on a study of Indiana energy use for daylight savings time showing an increase in energy use of 1%. 'The dataset consists of more than 7 million observations on monthly billing data for the vast majority of households in southern Indiana for three years. Our main finding is that — contrary to the policy's intent — D.S.T. increases residential electricity demand.'" Maybe that's just from millions of coffee makers being pressed into extra duty.

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its because they are increasing the day

[LiquidCoooled]

Of COURSE daylight savings stuff changes how much electricity you use.

Afterall, if they give us an extra hour of daytime then your appliances are running for a full 25 hours a day.

you have to run all your appliances for that extra hour every single day all winter.

Re:its because they are increasing the day

[ChromaticDragon]

Sigh...

Must we correct such silly ideas?!?

The extra hour is given to you in the Summer! Not the winter. In the US, the winter is during Standard Time.

It's that extra hour of A/C, not simple appliances.

Re:PedanticMan to the rescue!

[Tumbleweed]

Whoops, sorry, that was supposed to be 'Pedantic-Man', with a dash. How embarrassing.

What do you mean "you like" ?

[Kohath]

What do you mean by you like? Didn't you hear? We're all supposed to conserve energy for The Earth. It's not about what anyone likes, it's about sacrificing our comfort, our prosperity, and our way of life to benefit The Earth. The Earth demands sacrifice!

Now, start listening to your Leaders. They know what choices you should make. They say you should conserve energy. For The Earth. Any choice that uses more energy is Bad. Any choice that uses less is Good. There are no exceptions for productivity and no consideration for humanity. Just use less. Obey.

(The Leaders are exempt and may use all the energy they wish.)

This energy saving plan brought to you by

[presidenteloco]

The Bush administration, with
its fine misunderestimated mathematical minds,
who also calculated that if Osama Bin Laden
was hiding on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border,
we should go defeat him in Baghdad.

Oh and the same minds who calculated that
even though co2 lets in visible-light and ultraviolet
energy from the Sun and reflects and traps in infra-red
energy that radiates back off the Earth, it won't cause
global warming, because that would reduce oil
sale revenues.

It's honestly quite a shocker that this cunningly
devised plan didn't work.

Oh come on now...

[NotQuiteReal]

A government mandate that produces results contrary to the policy's intent?

That just can't be.