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Gas Prices Hit Record High

$4 gallon of gas around the corner, experts warn

CNN CNN Mar 10, 08 8:50 AM CDT
(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 »

More about:  gas prices • OPEC • ethanol • petroleum • Daylight Saving Time • Lundberg Survey • miles per gallon

Turn Clocks Ahead Tonight

Some doubt that daylight saving time conserves energy

Boston Globe Boston Globe Mar 8, 08 4:40 PM CST
(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 »

More about:  summer • Daylight Saving Time • energy consumption • air conditioning • Benjamin Franklin • clocks

Daylight Saving May Not Save Much, After All

Statistics on supposed energy savings are
from the Nixon era

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Nov 3, 07 6:02 AM CDT
(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 In fact, most of the studies that revolve around Daylight Saving Time are out of date or just not up to snuff.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 »

More about:  Congress • oil • Daylight Saving Time

Daylight Saving Time
May Be Health Hazard

The body relies on light cues to keep its internal clock in sync

Washington Post Washington Post Oct 30, 07 9:56 PM CDT
(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 »

More about:  health • Daylight Saving Time

Spring Ahead, Fall Back; Repeat

Some may have changed clocks a week early

MarketWatch MarketWatch Oct 30, 07 9:50 AM CDT
(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 »

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

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