There isnt enough daylight in March and November now. Saving some of it would just be another aggravation.
So that is 1.1 million gallons and less when refined into gasoline. How may autos/pickups/SUVs on the roads? A pittiful amount of gas per auto.
The real solution is to go to Farmers Daylight Time.
Get up with the sun and go to bed with the sun. Problem solved! 
And the amount of daylight per day won’t change if this law is passed.
I remember the Daylight Saving Time Energy Act, signed by Nixon in 1973, that established year-round DST. I was 11 at the time; it was strange to get up and go to school well before sunrise. As I recall, the time change was highly unpopular.
That is totally irrelevant to the discussion.
Don’t introduce fact(s) to confuse the issue.
I don’t care if we extend DST to year-round or drop it all-together. But I hate the changing back and forth. It takes weeks for my body to adjust and for me to get my sleep schedule back on track. Pick one and stick with it I say.
I say make it year round. If it’s too dark for the kids to safely get to school in the winter, then shift the school day back 1/2 hour. Like manhattan’s watch, there are many modern conveniences (VCRs, TVs, computers, etc.) that have the current schedule programmed right into their memory and if the proposal passes then these devices become less useful. Let’s just make it year round, then we can all just turn off the DST feature on all these devices.
My father was talking about this the other day. He said that 1973 was horrible for him as a construction worker. Sure, they just shifted his work hours forward that winter (can’t work outside if it’s dark out…it affects more than school kids), but they did not shift the work hours of my mother, who was working in a department store. So, since they carpooled (remember, it was the energy crisis back then) he would still need to be in town by 8 a.m. when she started work, and then she’d be stuck waiting for him for an hour at the end of the day.
I bet most people, especially today, would say “Forget that!” and just drive two vehicles. That would not save much energy at all, would it?
This is before I was born, but can you imagine trying to juggle shifting school schedules, etc. in there as well? You get your work schedule, child care arrangements, etc. all worked out, and then the school decides to shift forward an hour for the winter, but of course, your job does not, so everything’s messed up.
I think that what would happen with a modern permanent DST is that the few kids who still walk to school these days would be driven, either in school buses or by parents who would rather not see their kids get flattened by some idiot. Thus…not saving energy. And the obesity problem could rise as well.
Up here, in Minnesota, it doesn’t make much sense to start DST as early as we do. You finally get to a point where you’re not waking up at the butt-crack of dawn, and…oh, look, you’re up before the sun again.