<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/20cc6b37-2494-4216-8ecd-31c98bb61200/34F4D7AB-307F-4895-B341-2F3D532C6851/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2007-04-02T223538Z_01_N02447830_RTRUKOC_0_US-DAYLIGHT-ENERGY.xml&src=rss&rpc=22" href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2007-04-02T223538Z_01_N02447830_RTRUKOC_0_US-DAYLIGHT-ENERGY.xml&src=rss&rpc=22" style="font-size: 11px;">today.reuters.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2007-04-02T223538Z_01_N02447830_RTRUKOC_0_US-DAYLIGHT-ENERGY.xml&src=rss&rpc=22"><P> By Lisa Lee</P><P>NEW YORK (Reuters) - The early onset of Daylight Savings Time in the United States this year may have been for naught.</P><P>The move to turn the clocks forward by an hour on March 11 rather than the usual early April date was mandated by the U.S. government as an energy-saving effort.</P><P>But other than forcing millions of drowsy American workers and school children into the dark, wintry weather three weeks early, the move appears to have had little impact on power usage. </p> <DIV class="inlinecallout"> <SPAN id="ArticleBody_MidArticle"><DIV class="module"> <DIV class="moduleBody"> <H3><A href="javascript:void(window.open('http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=213&src=033107_MIDART_editorschoice','slideshowWin','top=50,left=100,height=580,resizable=yes,width=733,scrollbars=auto'))">Reuters Pictures</A></H3> <DIV> <A href="javascript:void(window.open('http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=213&src=033107_MIDART_editorschoice','slideshowWin','top=50,left=100,height=580,resizable=yes,width=733,scrollbars=auto'))" set="yes"> <IMG border="0" alt="Photo" src="http://int1.fp.sandpiper.net/reuters/editorial/images/20070331/JOSH2.jpg" /></A> <P>Editors Choice: Best pictures<BR />from the last 24 hours.<BR /><A href="javascript:void(window.open('http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=213&src=033107_MIDART_editorschoice','slideshowWin','top=50,left=100,height=580,resizable=yes,width=733,scrollbars=auto'))">View Slideshow</A></p> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </SPAN> </DIV> <P> </P><P>"We haven't seen any measurable impact," said Jason Cuevas, spokesman for Southern Co., one of the nation's largest power companies, echoing comments from several large utilities.</P><P>That may come as no surprise to the Energy Department, which last year predicted only modest energy savings because the benefits of the later daylight hour would be offset.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/34F4D7AB-307F-4895-B341-2F3D532C6851/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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