The debate over daylight-saving time never seems to end.
University of California-Santa Barbara economists have studied Duke Energy Corp. electricity bills and found that Indianaâ??s switch to daylight-saving time in 2006 cost Duke households $8.6 million extra. Duke operates in the southern and central part of the state.
Why? Heavier use of air-conditioning outweighed savings in electricity directed to lights, long a staple in the argument for moving the clocks ahead.
The study, reported in todayâ??s Wall Street Journal, didnâ??t attempt to find whether daylight-saving time lowered crime and other benefits cited by backers.
How do you like daylight-saving time?
University of California-Santa Barbara economists have studied Duke Energy Corp. electricity bills and found that Indianaâ??s switch to daylight-saving time in 2006 cost Duke households $8.6 million extra. Duke operates in the southern and central part of the state.
Why? Heavier use of air-conditioning outweighed savings in electricity directed to lights, long a staple in the argument for moving the clocks ahead.
The study, reported in todayâ??s Wall Street Journal, didnâ??t attempt to find whether daylight-saving time lowered crime and other benefits cited by backers.
How do you like daylight-saving time?
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Jason, time itself is an artificial imposition, but our living patters affected by changing the clocks twice a year are against the laws of nature.
How exactly does DST make us run a/c more often? It has no effect on temperature. Don't most of us have automatic thermostats anyway?
That whole study is bogus.