{"id":707,"date":"2005-04-07T19:58:18","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T01:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=707"},"modified":"2005-04-07T19:58:51","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T01:58:51","slug":"congress-may-extend-daylight-saving-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Congress May Extend Daylight-Saving Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please, please, pretty please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/04\/07\/daylight.saving.ap\/index.html\">extend daylight savings time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Congress passes an energy bill, Americans may see more daylight-saving time.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers crafting energy legislation approved an amendment Wednesday to extend daylight-saving time by two months, having it start on the first Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday in November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Extending daylight-saving time makes sense, especially with skyrocketing energy costs,&#8221; said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Michigan, who along with Rep. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, co-sponsored the measure.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment was approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee that is putting together major parts of energy legislation likely to come up for a vote in the full House in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use,&#8221; said Markey, who cited Transportation Department estimates that showed the two-month extension would save the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of oil a day.<\/p>\n<p>The country uses about 20 million barrels of oil a day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do it for the energy savings.  Do it for whatever reason you can come up with, just do it.<\/p>\n<p>I am most assuredly not a morning person, and this move would give me a little bit more daylight during the time I actually am awake.  Yeah, I&#8217;m just that selfish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please, please, pretty please extend daylight savings time. If Congress passes an energy bill, Americans may see more daylight-saving time. Lawmakers crafting energy legislation approved an amendment Wednesday to extend daylight-saving time by two months, having it start on the first Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday in November. &#8220;Extending daylight-saving time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}