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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (3263)	2/19/2004 1:16:41 AM
From: CalculatedRisk	Respond to of 173976

AP: Pet Projects Weigh Down Energy Bill Wed Feb 18, 8:58 AM ET Add Politics - AP to My Yahoo! story.news.yahoo.com By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Researchers and companies working to prevent future power blackouts are seeing their federal funding slip away to lawmakers' home-district projects, including research on ceramic engines and burning recycled carpets as fuel. Bush administration officials confirm they are being forced to cut or reroute federal money from superconductor technology research to make way for the pet projects that Congress approved in an energy spending bill last fall. The research, which is aimed at increasing the capacity of electrical transmission lines fivefold — tenfold eventually — gained new urgency last summer after a huge blackout darkened much of the Northeastern United States. <more in article>