They even say that by making it so it stays light longer will save barrels of energy. Ok I don’t see 10,000 barrels out of 20 MILLION as all that much to save in a day in the greater scheme of things. That’s like trying to save one penny when you go to buy a male enhancement car, AKA The Hummer. Oooh that penny is gonna be the straw that broke the camels back? Whatever.

But here it is… they even said it and don’t realize it… it’s about making it light longer… Let’s think about this. When are our energy costs the most? The winter. When are the days the shorters? The Winter. So when does it seem that we are using the most energy? The Winter. SO MAKE THE WINTER DAYS LONGER!!! Oh no… we make the summer, (the lesser in expense and the longer by NATURE), days extend??

You know what they need to do. If they are so concerned with saving a barrel during the months where we use less already for whatever reason that is… why don’t they just say “OK, we are staying on savings time. We are no longer switching time. Just year round DST. Make everyone happy. Winter days will end later. No more confusing time change. No more rise in accidents. No more kids strugling in school and employees struggling at work coping with being tired. More barrels of oil being saved year round. Sounds win win to me!!

I mean no one is gonna quibble over a lost hour… good grief, the alien abductions make you lose more than that. Government abduction of an hour shouldn’t be too bad. You’ll lose more time watching Congress fillibuster on CNBC then that hour we dropped last week. ROFL. This hour in the middle of the night at least would be more enjoyable as most of us spent the lost hour in bed… sure beats watching Congress be dorks.

Personally, I’m all for saving energy. If it actually did really save enough to matter. This is such a small drop in the hat. However we actually look at the energy crisis and our dependency on oil and consider OTHER OPTIONS. Wouldn’t that be a more valuable use of our time then wondering if we should change our clocks and if so which way does it change this time? Building our options on CLEAN and abundant energy would be much better. Bring on the wind and aqua and solar power, baby! Plenty of that to go around!

Besides, does Congress think the average american is gonna care about oil savings when they are saying that not even the cost of gas going up as it has is going to deter them from driving their gas guzzling SUVs and male enhancement Hummers?

Another good plan is to finally institute some kind of decent mass transit. It is insane that there’s no decent infrastructure in this nation. Citizens are almost FORCED into driving. Wouldn’t it be better to promote alternate ways of transportation. I’m lucky, I’m in the DC metro area. My town bus system has a lot of improvement it needs, but it is actually doing really great. I could actually go and catch the bus, take it to the train station, hop the rail to DC. From there hop onto the subway systems and find my way to Baltimore. That’s roughly 100 miles away. But that’s pretty rare in this country. And unfortunately this doesn’t extend through the entire state, or even the entire DC metro area. But it’s something. Far cry from Columbus, Ohio that’s for sure where you can’t even really use the city bus for much.

I’m sorry, there’s so much we COULD do. And instead we’re quibbling over a drop in the hat and something annoying instead of things we NEED to tackle. Like the dependency on oil. Free us from Oil.

Somewhere certain big businesses I won’t name are now plotting to get me… How dare I impede their production of polluting and wasteful products…