Obama's Big Power Play

Mother Jones by Kate Sheppard | Nov. 6, 2009 (Interview)

President Barack Obama likes to point out that when President Dwight Eisenhower built the federal highway system in the 1950s, he created a network that fueled postwar America?s economic rise. Now Obama?s administration wants to do the same for the green economy with the smart grid?a system of interlocking technologies that could transform the way we use electricity. By receiving real-time data on their energy use, consumers could save big on their power ... Full Story »

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Posted by: via Mother Jones - Nov 6, 2009 - 4:53 AM PST
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Nov 6, 2009 - 8:12 AM PST
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