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...week, I'm announcing the formation of Cheney's Champions, a new federal work program for the layabout teens of patriotic parents. If your youngster is aged 13-20 then he or she can be a part of this exciting national opportunity to rebuild the nation's flickering energy grid. Sonny won't go flabby eating funnel cakes at the boardwalk this year; instead he'll be transitioning into an adult pre-work mindset. Daughter Dear won't mind a few months away from her clique once she sees the tummy toning benefits of toting rebar...
...biggest "subsidy" Cheney and company are proposing (besides the tossed-in tax breaks for conservation) is for transmission - a national electrical grid, for better distributing the power that gets made. It'll be a tooth-and-nail fight with the kind of property-rights stalwarts that are a traditional Republican constituency, but it ought to get done, if only because a power line doesn't care what kind of power - coal, solar, wind, nuclear - it transmits...
...ANWR debate is expected to crumble under the weight of congressional environmentalists; the waste-related risks of nuclear power plants - compared with the global warming threat - may look like the lesser of two evils. Renewable energy, which now composes an eye-popping 2% of the nation's energy grid, needs a heck of a lot more than federal research dollars if it is ever to become a national alternative to fossil fuel energy...
...TRANSMISSION An outmoded national power grid has created huge bottlenecks. Bush would construct more gas pipelines and expand the use of eminent domain, so land could be bought and used for new lines
...serious energy shortage since the oil embargoes of the 1970s," it reads - and the recipe is ambitious, coalescing around three main ingredients. Supply (more power plants and refineries, less regulations), demand (tax breaks for conservation and energy efficiency), and the bridge between the two, transmission - specifically an interstate electrical grid and national pipeline network that Bush compared Thursday to the Eisenhower-spawned interstate highway system...