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Will the Daylight Saving Shift Do Us Any Good?

Ned Potter writes for ABC News:

Next week, by Congressional mandate, you will probably stumble out of bed an hour early, possibly, depending on your schedule, before dawn — all in the name of saving energy.

Congress made Daylight Saving Time three weeks earlier this year, proponents arguing that the shift would reduce America's energy consumption during that period about one percent.

Will it work? Not very likely, say two young economists at the University of California at Berkeley.

posted by Fergie @ 3/09/2007 01:11:00 PM