Daylight Savings Time
Now, I try not to get too political on this blog, and I realize that poking fun at George W. Bush is easier than hitting the ground with a rock, but I recently noticed a problem in the one idea of his that I actually liked.
Sunday we all pushed our clocks up an hour to advance daylight savings time by a couple weeks. It really is great. We have more daylight earlier in the season, and the weather in New York has been beautiful lately. So it’s really paid off.
But the idea wasn’t to pull us out of the winter doldrums and into sunny springtime earlier. It was to conserve energy, by giving us more wakeful daylight hours and reducing our dependence on the thermostat to heat our homes.
Here’s the rub: If we have longer days now, won’t the days be even longer than usual in June and July, thus requiring us to run our air conditioners more? I’m not a climate scientist - or any scientist, or at all good at math - but wouldn’t it make sense that lengthening the days now would also lengthen them later?
I mean, can this guy get anything right? The only positive thing to come out of this Bush administration, and it’s fucked up.
On a different topic, I’m looking forward to baseball season. As long as Alex Rodriguez is in pinstripes, I think I’ll have plenty to bitch about this summer.