Rather than try to re-engineer the human, why not promote energy efficiency. Why shouldn’t efficient lights, tv’s and computers be the order of the day?

Energy efficiency + renewable energy = problem solved.

To avoid getting into the various climate differences around the world- Here is a link for reference.. http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/climate.htm it should not be assumed that just because it would be better for UK people to warm their homes naturally by day, by setting their clocks forward throughout the year, doesn’t mean that this would be an energy saver for people all over the world. Great Idea for the Brits, but not an especially good idea for people who live closer to the equator- people in the tropics tend to have hotter weather in the late afternoons, so for those people without air conditioning, going to bed is more comfortable if the sun has been down for some time. It stands to reason, then, that if they had A/C, they would probably have to run it for longer, if the sun went down later in the day.

I live in Florida, and our power expenses generally pile up in the summer months, rather than winter. This past year was the exception- we had an exceptionally cold winter this year, and everyone’s power budgets were stretched thin..

However, if we hadn’t “fallen back”, as you said, we would have had another hour of natural warming, reducing our need for air conditioning.. I just think we have it all backwards, really- we should fall back in the spring and spring forward in the fall. It only makes sense, because everyone leaves the house to go to work anyways, where the sun is naturally warming their offices and buildings during the day.. and warming their homes up, too.. vice versa in the summer- they get up later, when it’s hotter, don’t get time to adjust to the heat, and are slammed with hot air all day, so the A/C gets cranked a little lower.. If people woke up at sunrise in the summer, and an hour later than sunrise in the winter, this problem would not be an issue.

DST has stuck as a tradition designed to help farmers, who really just get up at the same time every day anyways and don’t care about DST..

Plus, the idea of making a change like this in hopes that the simplistic idea will take the equivalent of 200,000 vehicles off the road can be equated to taking a carbon footprint the size of a gallon of water, and only emptying it of a teaspoon’s worth of water.. I am no expert here, either, and hey maybe a teaspoon here and a teaspoon there can help us reduce our humongous carbon footprint.. It just seems that we could be working a teensy bit harder towards making those magnet concept cars a reality (by mixing magnesium in with the asphalt we pave roads with now) instead of coming to a stalemate with nature, by applying concepts to the entire world that only really apply to a certain climate..

That’s my two cents.. may not be worth much, but hey. =)