What’s All This Then!

Until 2006, not everyone played with the little hands on their clock as we did last Sunday. 77 counties in Indiana ignored the Federal legislated rush to “spring ahead” an hour. This gave economics professor, Matthew and his PhD student Laura E. Grant, (University of California at Santa Barbara) a chance to study how Daylight Savings affected energy usage. Their results of analyzing over 7,000,000 electric meters? Those that practiced the ‘savings’ ritual reduced their lighting costs while increasing their heating and cooling expenses. The savings turned out to be a loss to households of $8.6 million in terms of bigger electricity bills (or gain if you’re the electric company).

So, tock to me. Do you still want bureaucrats to put their hands all over your clock or does this post tick you off? In the end, it’s all numbers game — not what saves us the most money but which option get them the most votes.

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