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  • March 2008

    • Gas Prices Hit Record High

      CNN  |  Mar 10, 08 8:50 AM CDT

      Gas Prices Hit Record High

      (Newser) - Gas prices rocketed 64 cents in the last year to a national average of $3.20 per gallon of regular, CNN reports.  A survey of prices at 5,000 gas stations found the highest price, $3.58, in San Francisco and the lowest, $2.99, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The last two weeks alone saw an increase of  9 cents a gallon. More »

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      gas prices  • ethanol  • OPEC  • Daylight Saving Time  • miles per gallon  • petroleum

    • Turn Clocks Ahead Tonight

      Boston Globe  |  Mar 8, 08 4:40 PM CST

      Turn Clocks Ahead Tonight

      (Newser) - Time flies when you’re trying to save energy: Americans will have to spring their clocks forward by an hour tonight—technically at 2am— for daylight saving time. The sleep-reducing tradition is happening a month earlier than usual in a government effort to cut down on electricity use and take advantage of the extra hour of sunlight, the Boston Globe reports. More »

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      summer  • Daylight Saving Time  • energy consumption  • air conditioning  • Benjamin Franklin

  • November 2007

    • Daylight Saving May Not Save Much, After All

      Wall Street Journal  |  Nov 3, 07 6:02 AM CDT

      Daylight Saving May Not Save Much, After All

      (Newser) - One of the much-publicized reasons for turning back our clocks—the supposed savings of 100,000 barrels of oil a day—turns out to be a stat based on the behaviors of Americans three decades ago, the Wall Street Journal reports. In fact, most of the studies that revolve around Daylight Saving Time are out of date or just not up to snuff. More »

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      Congress  • oil  • Daylight Saving Time

  • October 2007

    • Daylight Saving Time May Be Health Hazard

      Washington Post  |  Oct 30, 07 9:56 PM CDT

      Daylight Saving Time May Be Health Hazard

      (Newser) - The modern world's proliferation of artificial light is wreaking havoc on the human internal clock, which relies on natural light cues to regulate the body's cycles, scientists say. And daylight saving time makes things even worse, reports the Washington Post . "From the psychiatric perspective, the extension of daylight saving time this year was a very bad decision," says one light expert. More »

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      health  • Daylight Saving Time

    • Spring Ahead, Fall Back; Repeat

      MarketWatch  |  Oct 30, 07 9:50 AM CDT

      Spring Ahead, Fall Back; Repeat

      (Newser) - Spring ahead, fall back. And fall back again, for many whose clocks wrongly reset themselves last weekend—1 week ahead of the schedule Congress set when it extended Daylight Saving Time. Most cell phones and computers, which get time and date information from networks, weren't affected, but many alarm clocks and PDAs that predated 2005 jumped the gun, MarketWatch reports. More »

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      Congress  • cell phones  • computer  • BlackBerry  • Halloween  • Daylight Saving Time  • time  • clock  • Palm Pilot

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