Congress is full of bad ideas, but here’s a really bad one: extending Daylight Saving Time. I’ve written against DST here. But now Rep. Ed Markey (D., Mass.) apparently thinks a law is going to give us more sunbeams: “The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use.” Will somebody on Markey’s staff please write the boss a memo and tell him that changing federal law won’t give us more daylight?

For what it’s worth, the airline industry and National PTA are against extending DST.