BlueCollarPerspective accepts Obama’s challenge, and submits the following proposal for his State-of-the-Union goal to ‘cut in half energy wasted by homes, businesses’…

(Note to Obama team – please send promised federal funding support for this ground-breaking concept asap; reserves are running low due to higher gas and food prices.)

BCP proudly introduces SKAM – Simply Keep Americans Moving – a unique solutions oriented proposal which any reasonable politician can justify supporting in their usual wholehearted, I’m-not-in-it-for-the-money, what’s-best-for-America fashion.

The concept is simple: HUGE energy consumption occurs based on seasonal cycles. Northern Winters demand more energy to keep us warm (at work and at home), and Southern Summers demand more energy to keep us cool from the heat and humidity.

SKAM breaks through that cycle! And the concept is simple: during the cold winter months in Northern states, move populations to the more temperate Southern ones.

And vice versa – during hot,humid summer months in the South, move populations and businesses to Northern states, utilizing Vertical Deployment (VD) if you will.

During each annual VD cycle, families share home, work, and school facilities.

After all, in working-class school-age families, homes are only occupied part of each day. And many businesses have only 1 or 2 shifts, leaving them vacant for large sections of each day, and – unless retail-oriented – completely closed on weekends. Schools too.

This creates a huge opportunity through home- and work-sharing space efficiencies!

The Smith family can occupy the Jones home during the day while the Jones’s are away at work and school; the Smith parents go to work in the evening at shared-shift manufacturing facilities, and the Smith kids go to school on that same schedule.

Using this VD concept liberally, we can accomplish a Naturally Occurring Movement-Adaptive Design (NOMAD) which ends the necessity for Spiking Energy eXcess (SEX). Homes, businesses, and schools are used more efficiently, reducing energy needs.

Let’s face it – once a NOMAD accepts VD as the norm…who needs SEX…?

This is SKAM…a concept any reasonable Liberal should be willing to embrace…!!!

(Who knew that VD could be such a useful, cost-saving approach?)