In Raleigh, it seems that about 95% of the time during the summer that it is either too cloudy or bright during the night to see anything. Of course, this is only a problem if you want to do some stargazing as most people are inside watching TV and other things during the evening. Pretty soon, however, politicians in Washington may get the opportunity to extend daylight for another two months. Somehow they believe that this will save energy, when in fact peak energy usage is always during working hours.

If they actually want to save energy, they should increase the CAFE to something like 40mpg instead of the current average of 21mpg. An even better idea would be to shorten full-time working hours from 40 to 32, since pretty much everyone would be for that. Or we could give 10 billion dollars of tax money to the energy cartels to … well … just for fun.