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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (17337)	11/11/2007 11:40:21 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

"These changes in dates for Daylight Saving Time are part of the Energy Policy Act, signed into law by President Bush in August 2005, which came into force in 2007. And there were political motives behind President Bush's tinkering with the clocks. The Energy Policy Act is a set of measures ostensibly aimed at reducing the US's emission of greenhouse gases, and countering global warming - a set of what to me at least seem like token gestures on the part of the Bush administration, to make up for their steadfast refusal to sign up to the Kyoto Protocol with its targets for industrialised countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Increasing Daylight Saving Time supposedly makes a significant contribution to energy conservation. " do you Brits know who make the LAWS in the US ??