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I could do my usual rant on the first day of daylight savings for the year. I could curse Benjamin Franklin, but instead I’ll just say that this can’t be what Franklin had in mind. Franklin wanted us to go to bed earlier and get up with light to save candles. Candles, folks. When’s the last time you lit your way with a candle?

Daylight savings maybe useful if you actually run your life to the rhythm of the sun. I think farmers and people who tend livestock still have to get up before dawn and work their butts off, but for the majority of us dawn isn’t that critical. Daylight isn’t critical to most of our jobs. Many of us work well into the night on a regular basis regardless of the clock. And if we aren’t working, we’re playing, or relaxing using some sort of electronic device. I read yesterday that daylight savings will save so many barrels of oil? How? Most electricity in this country is made from coal or nuclear, mostly coal. So how does daylight savings save oil? Do our cars run more efficiently in daylight? I don’t think so.

No rant this year, just puzzled. Frankly, I think daylight savings is a way for the government, whatever flavor, to feel it’s saving energy when in point of fact it probably isn’t. It saves whoever is in the White House from having to truly look at ways to cut energy costs and give us alternative fuels. See, we’re saving energy. We’re turning the clocks forward an hour. Yea!

All I think daylight savings does is irritate most of the country, and make us late for at least one morning twice a year to wherever we’re supposed to be going.