Part 2 of the
"Sunshine Protection Act" story
The last time the U.S. tried year-round daylight savings was 1974. Within the year, permanent Daylight Savings was scrapped
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"Sunshine Protection Act":
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Congress had voted on December 14, 1973, to put the US on daylight saving time for two years. President Nixon signed the bill the next day.
One study found that daylight saving time caused an increase in energy demand and pollution
"Daylight saving time was marketed as saving on energy.The real impetus for it then and now was businesses that stood to benefit from daylight saving"
Nov 1, 2021 — No, daylight saving time does not significantly save electricity in the US
Mar 9, 2008 — Another way daylight savings might be fuelling our warming climate? Increased carbon dioxide fumes sputtering out of car tailpipes
critics say daylight saving time actually increases fuel consumption. People got in their cars to use that extra hour of sun.
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businesses get more people shopping during that late daylight hour and have often lobbied for daylight saving time, even during World War I.
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While 79 percent of Americans approved of the change in December 1973, approval had dropped to 42 percent three months later, the New York Times reported
Longer summer daylight = more AC usage
Greenhouse gas emissions from air conditioners are expected to climb as economic growth drives efforts to control both temperature and humidity, according to an analysis by scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Xerox PARC.
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Friday, Mar 18, 2022 · 1:41:02 AM +00:00 · Angmar
Mar 12, 2016 — Governments have long sold daylight time as a way to conserve energy. If we spend more waking hours in sunlight, we'll use less electricity to...
There are also individual health concerns- switching to Daylight Saving Time is associated with cardiovascular morbidity, a higher risk of a heart attack or stroke, and an increase in hospital admissions for irregular heartbeats, for
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The U.S. tried permanent daylight saving time in the 1970s — then quickly rejected it
However, America tried this before — and the country hated it. In the early 1970s, America was facing an energy crisis so the government tried an experiment. Congress passed a law to make daylight saving time permanent year round, but just for two years. The thinking was more sunlight in the evening would reduce the nation's energy consumption.
It didn't work, said David Prerau, one of the nation's foremost experts on the issue.
"It became very unpopular very quickly," he told NPR.
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