In May, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 48-1 in favor of the Sunshine Protection Act. The U.S. Senate voted unanimously in March 2022 to make daylight saving time permanent but the House never took up the measure in the face of opposition. The proposal the House will consider next week would allow states to opt out.
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/03/28/why-permanent-daylight-saving-time-bad-idea
Why not just move school and work start times an hour or two later in the winter in Colorado then? Why hold the entire country hostage because of niche locations that already have the ability to make local decisions like this?
>more people will be driving to work or to the ski resorts in the dark
Trust me, if you aren’t on I-70 before sunrise on the weekend, don’t bother. You’re not getting to the resort till noon
TIL in 1974 the U.S. tried permanent DST during an energy crisis … it saved little energy, fuel use slightly increased, and public support collapsed after one dark winter, so the law was repealed within 10 months.
God forbid we’d learn from past mistakes.
What do you mean dark winter? We already spend 3/4 of the year in DST. It sucks when it goes to standard time as it gets dark real early.