03-01-2009, 06:26 PM
And as for RJ's rant before about the environmental policy; your living in a fantasy world if you think it is not necessary. He has put money in place for updating our nation's energy grid which, at the current pace, would become obsolete and not even provide enough electricity for the nation in roughly 20 years. To be able to do so would require a new powerplant to be built about every week for 14 years. The smart grid would allow for devices not in use to be shut off and save millions, if not billions of dollars. Energy is not only about oil, in fact electricity is a far more important and imminent threat. It's not all about global warming, it's about being smart and staying one step ahead; it's about preventing the loss of our natural land from explosive coal mining which ruins landscapes forever.