A Rasmussen Report from March '13 found that only 37% of Americans surveyed thought DST is "worth the hassle," while 45% said it was not. Indiana, once home to counties that both did & did not observe DST, abolished DST statewide in '06. In their 2008 Nat'l Bureau of Economic Research study, a team headed by environmental economist, M. Kotchen, found that lighting demand dropped, but the warmer hour of extra daylight led to more air-conditioning use. This effectively canceled out the gains from reduced lighting and then some: people paid higher electric bills than before DST, the study showed. Also, transitions to/from DST disturbs sleep patterns, and makes people restless, which results in sleeplessness/stress. Abolishing DST could decrease deaths from heart attack & traffic accidents.
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