Shocking, I know! Remember back in 2000 and 2001, Bush & Cheney kept talking about the electrical grid in the U.S.?
Cheney, 2001
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.
We now know that all the neocon's concern about electricity in the US was a sham. Think Enron blackouts. A ruse on the entire west coast to play games with people's lives, businesses and money, to manufacture anger toward Gray Davis and force a recall and get Arnold Schwartzeneger into office. It was only a warm up.
Bush, 9/22/2004
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
If you want there to be jobs in Pennsylvania and in America, if you want our manufacturing companies to be able to thrive, we need reliable sources of energy. We need to modernize our electricity grid.
They aren't done. Grandma Millie better like being cold and going to bed early so she won't notice she can't turn on the lights! She better like paying a lot more for her utility bills, and not want so many frivolous things, like food and medicine. These morons pretend we haven't heard the tapes of recorded conversations between Enron's energy traders, laughing about "stealing, I mean arbitraging, California, for about $1 million a day! Ha, ha..."
These tapes were in the hands of the Justice Dept., but did they deal with the problem? No. The Snohomish Public Utility District got them because of a lawsuit. Get this, Enron manufactured a crisis, jacked up the rates then signed as many utilities as possible to long term contracts, at astronomical prices.
Once Snohomish PUD figured out what had happened, they canceled the contract. Enron is suing them for breaking the contract! What balls!
This will happen all over the country if Bush gets re-elected.