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To: portage who wrote (26057)8/22/2003 12:55:13 PM
From: stockman_scott  Respond to of 89467
 
NEWSWEEK Aug. 25 issue — “We’re a superpower with a Third World grid.”

-Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico and former Energy secretary in the Clinton administration, on the blackouts that crippled parts of the U.S. Midwest, the Northeast and southern Canada

msnbc.com

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Hmmm....I wonder IF we could have totally upgraded our national power grid if we hadn't spent over $100 billion on the Iraqi adventure so far...Life's a series of compromises.