re: Daylight Saving Time is Early This Year -- Update Your Computer Now

Russ Bianchi — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:16:55 GMT

You have to admire Arizona, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, & American Samoa, who do not go along with this NONESENSE, under State and Territory Rights, of Federal imposed daylight savings time, that US Congress (both House & Senate & on both sides of the isle) hoists on the rest of the gullible states.

The last time the US Congress MESSED with this, was in the so called "energy crisis" of the early 1970's (when crude oil spiked to a whopping USD$12 dollars per barrel), & kids were going to school in the pitch black, with actually more energy being spend to have lights on, until it got light around 9AM or 10AM in the morning.

When kids started getting run over in higher numbers from cars across the darkened mornings, school routes, cross walks & bus stops, Congress backed off, and changed it back.

Where is the collective memory, for this to be happening again?

No doubt some nefarious PR, or lobbying firm, pushing ancient, very expensive, highly polluting in radioactive waste (with half lives of thousands of years & no proven safe storage that terrorists would LOVE to get their hands on for a dirty bomb), for dangerous nuclear power plants, is behind this one; remember 3 Mile Island?...HELLO?
Is anybody listening?

Nuclear, even with SPIN of newer/safer generation nuclear plants, unless it's FUSION (reported having been accomplished in the NY Times a week ago, by a researcher at the Oakridge National Labs), IS STILL a "dangerous & expensive way to boil water".

Centralized utilities are governmental sponsored, & lobbied for, monopolies, & yet one more way to transfer wealth (in noncompetitive utility rates) from the many, into the hands of a very few utility stockholders/fat cat investors.

The film, 'The Distinquished Gentleman' saterizes how the US Congress really operates on energy policy.