I hadn't read this anywhere in the news until last night, and it's already been passed by congress!!??

what do you all think?

Jul 30, 4:37 AM EDT

Extended Daylight-Saving Plan Worries Some

By ANNIE BERGMAN
Associated Press Writer

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- As Congress voted to extend daylight-saving time, some parents and school administrators worried about the children who would end up waiting for school buses in the morning darkness.

Mark Sanders, superintendent of the Valley Springs School District in northern Arkansas, said some school bus routes in his rural area are more than an hour long.

"These younger kids are the ones I'm concerned about," Sanders said. "We've got parents going to work, and we've got those kids standing out waiting for the bus. I hate to see it. I think they're making a mistake."

Congress on Friday gave final approval to a bill that includes a four-week expansion of daylight-saving time in an effort to save energy. If President Bush signs it, most Americans would see their clocks "spring forward" the second Sunday of March and "fall back" the first Sunday of November, beginning in 2007.

Daylight-saving time now starts on the first Sunday of April and ends the last Sunday of October.

Canada and Mexico, which observe daylight-saving time, also are considering whether to make the change. Officials in Canada worry about being out of sync with U.S. time for airlines, manufacturers, the financial sector and television programming.

According to Congress' thinking, if Americans can wait an hour to turn on their lights at night, the nation should be able to conserve at least some energy.

As a practical matter, many cheered the extra daylight hours.

"It's going to save me four weeks of (utility) payments. It won't be a huge savings, but it'll offset fuel costs. Every little bit helps," said Sue Clothier, 40, of Gansevoort, N.Y.

But the tradeoff for parents with school-age children is an extra 20 weekdays of sending pupils off in the dark and having them stay up later at night.

"I don't think that it's safe," said Nikki McIntosh of Little Rock, whose children Myah, 12, and Alex, 11, occasionally ride a bus to school. "I would rather take mine and pick them up. That way I would know they were safe."

Lynnette Ryan of Colorado Springs, Colo., is already anticipating the battles with her children, now ages 1 and 5.

"It's going to be hard on them because they'll be going to day care in the dark. Then they come home, and it's going to be light in the evening - and they're not going to want to go to bed," said Ryan, visiting her mother Friday in Morgantown, W.Va.

But Al Davis, who raises cattle in southwestern Cherry County, Neb., said it would be helpful for his operation on the eastern side of the Mountain time zone.

"It gets dark here at 4 p.m. on the darkest day of the year," Davis said. "So this will be advantageous to us."

Mary Beth Truman of Clifton Park, N.Y., simply saw the change as a nuisance.

"I don't know, it always creeps me out if it's dark and Oprah's on," she said.

Some in big cities were more open to the idea.

"It will save energy. People will be going to school in the dark, but that's all right," said Chris Chaloner, 33, a designer from Boston who has a toddler. "It's just the beginning of the day. It will be over before you know it."

An extra hour of daylight sounded appealing to some on a glorious late Friday afternoon in New York's Central Park.

Jordan Kinzler, a 26-year-old from Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., who offers tours of the park in a pedal-powered rickshaw, said additional daylight won't help his business much because his busiest time is midmorning.

"But if this means that I've got a little more time to kick back and enjoy the day after I get home to Westchester, I'm all for it," he said.

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search is neato.

And like I said in the thread you referenced, it's an asinine idea and will save hardly any oil. Congress really fucked up on this energy bill and showed where their priorities lie, with big energy companies. Despite everything that's happened in the last 5 years, and all the talk of reducing dependence on foreign oil, they didn't do a goddamned thing about it. Vote ALL the bums out!!

I like this lady here:



So what does she do in the summer?

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daylight savings time ownz!! cmon...an extra hour.....i love it...more light...more sports is what i say....

altho it sucks working in a restaraunt during daylight savings.....