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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (444265)	8/17/2003 1:14:18 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Yes, this what the VP said... The report we issued last month presented more than 100 recommendations covering virtually the entire range of concerns that face the American people. One of the concerns, obviously, is the aging power grid and the growing problem that we have in getting electricity from the power plant to the light switch. It's clear that we must upgrade and expand the power grid. If we put more connections in place, we'll go a long way towards avoiding future blackouts. Another broad aim is to increase energy supplies from diverse sources; from oil and gas, renewables, coal, hydro and nuclear. This is the kind of balanced approach we think is essential if we're going to meet the country's energy needs down the road and take care of many of our other concerns, especially with respect to the environment.#reply-19216958 And is New York over the last decade bascically no new capacity has been added and upgrades to transmission are stymied by the same kind of technology idiots who post here. The perfect example is the Cross Sound Cable where the idiot in CT, Blumenthal keeps fighting to have the cable not be turned on because of his stupidity. ctnow.com Erin O'Brien, a spokeswoman for ISO New England, the grid serving Connecticut, said she was unable to say whether the Cross Sound Cable would have helped avert blackouts in Connecticut, or restore them more quickly, because the energy system is so dynamic and changes day to day. Southwest Connecticut, already identified as an area with transmission problems, was most severely affected, she noted. She said the cable "does not specifically address the reliability concerns that ISO New England has for southwest Connecticut; however, the availability of that line can serve as an additional resource for our control room operators." The 24-mile cable across the Sound has been kept out of service because it was not laid as deeply as required in seven locations off the New Haven coast. Strict conditions were imposed on the controversial project because of concerns it could cause environmental damage to the Sound or pose safety problems for commercial shipping in New Haven Harbor. ctnow.com But there is no danger to shipping from a burried cable. In fact if the cable were simply laying on the bottom it would pose little danger to shipping. But it's safety would be less. Envionmental danger??????? duuhhhhhh!!!!!!!