Daylight Savings Time Increases Energy Use In Indiana

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 9, 2008 @06:58AM from the all-change-has-friction dept.

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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My Man Bitch by Anonymous Coward · 2008-11-09 17:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Republican Bitch Daniels loves sucking off Shicago politicians for some damned reason. He wanted us to be on 'in sync' with them. All bullshit platitudes on what this would do for us were lies. What he really meant is he wanted to be as corrupt as them.