Daylight Saving Times Saves You Money
Posted on March 21st, 2009 by Bruce
Daylight Saving Time Saves You Money
Switching to daylight savings time early, saves you money on electrical bills. According to a DOE report released last year, U.S. electricity use was decreased by 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours, enough to power about 122,000 average U.S. homes for a year! The DOE report did find small increases in electricity use in the early morning hours, but those increases were more than cancelled out by the energy savings in the evening.
Personally, I enjoy the extra hours of sunlight in the evenings far more than the earlier morning darkness that I’ve grown accustom to all winter. They can start Daylight Saving Time even earlier and I won’t complain.
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