Daylight Saving Time Is Over

And it begs the question; "What did you do with the hours that you saved?" I know it is one of those "Hmm! I never really thought too much about it." and that is okay because most of us know that someone in the beauracracy has come up with a plan.

Daylight Saving Time Yields Massive Daylight Surplus

October 25, 2006 | Issue 42•43

WASHINGTON, DC—Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman announced Monday that the country's seven-month-long effort to conserve sunshine has resulted in the largest national daylight surplus since October 2005.

"We have built up over 200 hours of this precious, life-giving resource," said Bodman, noting that "the sun's rays are not going to last forever." "We have decided it would be most prudent not to squander this valuable daylight by distributing it to Americans, instead suggesting that they all just wake up a little earlier."

Bodman said the surplus will be stored in the Strategic Daylight Reserve—a system of opaque, sealed-off underground tanks located in Arizona—and only tapped in the case of the sun burning out or a particularly rainy afternoon.

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