Essay On Daylight Savings

During the twentieth century, and World War I, the Germans started this concept called “Daylight Savings Time”, in hopes of saving a considerable amount of fuel. Being Americans, of course, we opted into trying out Daylight Savings, for we too wanted to save fuel and other resources. But, a majority of Americans were very unhappy with this, and the law was soon repealed due to its unpopularity. But, Daylight Savings came back just in time for the Second World War, where it continued to stick around, for years continuing to come. Though Daylight Savings was introduced and implemented in order to save fuel, there isn’t much fuel saving actually happening, leading me to agree with a majority of other Americans. It’s time to make daylight savings …show more content…
The Daylight savings seems to reduce lighting use, and electricity consumption slightly, but it increases the heating, air conditioning, and gas consumption too. If the Daylight Savings were to be extended to year round, there would be an approximate 0.5% of electricity saved per day for the United States over a four-week span. This averages out to be around enough energy to power one hundred thousand houses for up to a year. From an energy saving stand point, it’s safe to say the current DST isn’t doing much of any …show more content…
One being, the standard work shift and school day. Kids and parents would get more daylight hours after work, rather than before, allowing them to engage in leisure activities, get more work done, and run errands. There would be a slight increase in sales due to the amount of leisure activities we would be engaged in, which would be a small plus for Manufacturers. Research suggest that keeping a year round DST would lower TV ratings, and increase the amount of exercise children receive both on weekends and during the school week, regardless of the weather. Even kids would subconsciously prefer to have sunlight after school, rather than