Deck Chairs. Titanic. 'Nuff Said.

Thanks for the nearly meaningless gimmickry, boys! Don't bother with the big stuff, like investments in renewable energy or meaningful conservation efforts or shifting our national priorities away from growth-at-all-costs. Better to stick with ideas adapted from Congress's smoke-and-mirrors budget process!

Lawmakers crafting energy legislation approved an amendment Wednesday to extend daylight-saving time by two months, having it start on the first Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday in November.

[...] "The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use," said [Democratic Congressman Ed] Markey, who cited Transportation Department estimates that showed the two-month extension would save the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of oil a day.

The country uses about 20 million barrels of oil a day. [emphasis mine]