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Common sense: Surcharging minus DST
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Posted on Jul 05 2005
I was just in the U.S. mainland due to the loss of my sister, who was a retired principle in Chicago—may God bless her—but I’m always thinking about the CNMI and it occurred to me that “Daylight Saving Time” is just that: a way to save power and money. They are on Daylight Saving Time in the mainland and it doesn’t take a leap of the imagination or any critical thinking to realize that we need to switch our time to Daylight Saving Time to cut down on power usage and cost to the customers. I know this won’t cut out the surcharge but it should help when you compute the decrease in regular power usage of one house over a 30-day-period. It adds up, plus it gives us more time at the beach.
There is no need for me to give a long statement about this idea as it is plain common sense, which a great deal of the world has already applied to their societies during summer months. We are also in a state of emergency, which should qualify us—the people—for some form of federal assistance with our power bills that apparently hasn’t been looked into.
Hopefully, someone at the Legislature will read this and look into some federal assistance and propose a bill that will address the usage of Daylight Saving Time during the summer and for emergency purposes like we are under now. My surcharge is almost $100 a month and I’m sure there are others who pay a great deal more. We, the people, need some help, too! Daylight Saving Time is too much like common sense but the questions remain: Are we going to apply this common sense solution to save power and money?
Ambrose M. Bennett
Kagman High School
