Because I'm more important

I get the whole concept of time zones, and for the most part, support it. But do Central and Mountain time really need to exist? I mean, it's an hour different from the two time zones in this country that do matter. And every national event refers only to those two time zones. No TV channel says 8 Central/7 Mountain, for example. You'll get the 8 Eastern/7 Central, and for something that can't be localized as much, such as satellite radio, you'll have 8 Eastern/5 Pacific. No mention of the other two zones. People can just figure out what time to tune in from that, even if they're in one of the two meaningless zones. And if people start to think "Oh hey, it gets dark at 6 now," in due time they won't even realize the difference and just shift their lives an hour earlier.

Of course, this would make things for more confusing when moving from say, Chicago to New York, when your life would have to shift an hour ahead now. And since the whole time zone thing was started here to help farmers, forcing the Great Plains area and such to shift seems counterintuitive. But hey, it would be more convenient for me.