“Who would think you could cut one end off of a blanket, sew it on the other end, and have a longer blanket?” (Dudley) The answer is obviously no. However, this is what happens when daylight saving time is used an hour of light is taken from the beginning of the day and added to the end, for the purpose of getting more daylight. Daylight saving is a time, starting in the spring, when the clocks are set one-hour ahead, then set back in the fall. It is used throughout the many countries, including the United States (however Hawaii and Arizona(excluding its Navajo tribe)). Daylight saving cost Americans more money while at the same time lowering the US’s money, it also causes problems with sleep, and in the weeks following the time change more
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The use of daylight saving is said to make energy consumption be less, however not only does energy consumption goes up at times of daylight saving, but the US loses money. Several studies on energy demand and consumption were conducted one stating that “By comparing households’ electricity demand before and after DST was adopted, month by month, we showed that DST had actually increased residential electricity demand in Indiana by 1 to 4% annually. The largest effects occurred in the summer, when DST aligns our lives with the hottest part of the day, so people tend to use more air conditioning, and late fall, when we wake up in the dark and use more heating with no reduction in lighting needs.”(Perry) The increase in the energy causes Americans to spend more money on electricity. This will negatively affect families economy, which negatively affects the US economy. Indiana adopted daylight savings in 2006 researchers used their change into daylight saving to get data on how the change does affect the consumption of energy. “In 2008, a breakthrough study from The University of California at Santa Barbara showed once and for all, that DST likely creates an increased demand for energy in the U.S.The study made use of a “natural
The use of daylight saving is said to make energy consumption be less, however not only does energy consumption goes up at times of daylight saving, but the US loses money. Several studies on energy demand and consumption were conducted one stating that “By comparing households’ electricity demand before and after DST was adopted, month by month, we showed that DST had actually increased residential electricity demand in Indiana by 1 to 4% annually. The largest effects occurred in the summer, when DST aligns our lives with the hottest part of the day, so people tend to use more air conditioning, and late fall, when we wake up in the dark and use more heating with no reduction in lighting needs.”(Perry) The increase in the energy causes Americans to spend more money on electricity. This will negatively affect families economy, which negatively affects the US economy. Indiana adopted daylight savings in 2006 researchers used their change into daylight saving to get data on how the change does affect the consumption of energy. “In 2008, a breakthrough study from The University of California at Santa Barbara showed once and for all, that DST likely creates an increased demand for energy in the U.S.The study made use of a “natural