Since W became president, the government has done many things which irritate and disgust me, but long before anyone ever heard of that bastard, the federal government was doing things that pissed me off. One was the establishment of daylight saving time, which now starts in early March and lasts until November. It was bad enough when it started in April and ended in October.
When I was employed as a public servant, I used to live for my weekends. My life began Friday night and ended at about midnight on Sunday. The stuff I did from 8:00 am Monday through 5:00 pm Friday was just activity that was necessary to pay for my weekends. Weekends were the hours that were precious, and every year, I got cheated out of one of them when we changed from CST to CDT. Even now, I get mad thinking about it. To make matters worse, I'm one of those people who can't adapt to sunshine when it's nearly 9:00 at night, the situation I'm forced into during the summer months.
Yesterday as I was skimming the news, I noticed a headline indicating that daylight saving time results in increased energy consumption. I'll go back and read the whole story, but if it says what I think it might, I'm going to really be chapped the next time I fill my tank with $3.30 per gallon gasoline. An EMF to the people who thought this up.
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