This is a real letter to the editor from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
newspaper. Just how stupid are people? This stupid:

Daylight exacerbates warning*
You may have noticed that March of this year was particularly hot. As a
matter of fact, I understand that it was the hottest March since the
beginning of the last century. All of the trees were fully leafed out and
legions of bugs and snakes were crawling around during a time in Arkansas
when, on a normal year, we might see a snowflake or two. This should come as
no surprise to any reasonable person. As you know, Daylight Saving Time
started almost a month early this year. You would think that members of
Congress would have considered the warming effect that an extra hour of
daylight would have on our climate. Or did they ? Perhaps this is another
plot by a liberal Congress to make us believe that global warming is a real
threat. Perhaps next time there should be serious studies performed before
Congress passes laws with such far-reaching effects

My follow-up

After spending all night contemplating this great dilemma, I have made some startling discoveries!
 
Sometimes it takes years of research and discovery to unlock the great mysteries of life!
 
Several years ago Wes, Ron , and I were driving back from Brookville after playing golf. Wes and I began discussing how the corn always grew taller in Kentucky than Indiana. After much discussion we realized that it was due to the fact that Kentucky observed Daylight Savings Time. We concluded that if the average day of sunlight was 12 hours, than an extra hour would give them  an extra day every twelve days or approximately 2 1/2 more days per month. In six months that would be an extra two weeks of growing time. I noticed that Ron had a deer in the headlights look. Some people just can't comprehend things of a complex nature.! (Guess he didn't drink as much truth serum as we did.)
 
Moving ahead several years , while living in Arizona, which doesn't observe Daylight Savings Time, I realized that the reason is that Arizona doesn't need DST, it gets too much sun the way it is. They actually tried it for one year but the cactus started dying from too much sunlight.
 
This wise lady from Arkansas has stumbled onto a solution to one of the worlds greatest problems, however it took the our great minds to unlock the mystery!
 
Al Gore is barking up the wrong tree, the real Inconvenient Truth is that Daylight Savings Time is creating Global Warming!!
 
Combine the above facts with the afore mentioned thoughts and you have an answer to the problem.
 
Ever since Ben Franklin first proposed DST over 200 years ago,the earth has been on a collision course to a melt down. However well meaning he might have been, it has been a disaster for the planet!
 
The only solution that I can see that would work is that when October comes and the time changes, everyone should set their clocks back two hours. That would give us 4 extra weeks of darkness and cooler weather per year, it wouldn't take many years at all to reverse the effects of 200 years of climate disaster .
 
This measure may sound extreme, but the only other alternative we have is to follow the advice of Cheryl Crow and only use one square of toilet paper when we use the bathroom.
 
It's amazing how many of the worlds problems have been solved by drinking truth serum!
 
Next time I will discuss why Harold  and I never bought a doughnut shop, one of the reasons being that you knead too much dough.
 
One major problem we encountered never was solved.
 
Albert , Art  and I were having lunch one day at The Ship, (man that goes back in time), Art mentioned the fact that the state of Arkansas produced more eggs than any other state in the union, he went on to say that more chickens came from Georgia than anywhere else. After contemplating this for a while we wondered how all the eggs could come from Arkansas if all the chickens were in Georgia.
 
Albert had that same afore mentioned deer in the headlights look. I'm not sure why some people just don't get it!!!
 
We discussed that problem for years and consulted many others in the restaurant, but no one ever came up with an answer,now I fear that Art has passed on without ever knowing the truth!
 
If anyone has the answer I would appreciate being enlightened.