GORE LIED

It’s for our own good, and it will save us money Carol Browner told US News and World Report:

Were there elements in the administration’s “green” agenda and in the stimulus package that Obama has been particularly insistent on?
Yes, the smart grid. If we’re going to double renewables—it’s taken us 35 years to get as many renewables as we have today—if we’re going to double that in the near term, part of what we have to be thinking about is how we’re going to move those renewables to where the people are, and a smart grid is a piece of that.

What is the genesis of President Obama’s thinking on this?
He talked about it during the campaign, and I think what we’ve been able to do in the stimulus is really fill that out. So, as I said, it’s bigger, better, smarter. Bigger means we need the new high-voltage lines for renewables. Better means we need to take our existing lines and upgrade them. And then, smarter: We need to make sure that we’re really moving electricity in the smartest way and using the most cost-effective electricity at the right time of day. Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won’t operate at its peak, you’ll still be able to cool your house, but that’ll be a savings to the consumer. And so [we will be] giving people and companies a role in the management of how we use electricity.

She kind of lost me on the “giving people and companies a role in the management of how we use electricity”.  What she just described above pretty much leaves the people out of the equation.  But, I’m sure she’d say it’s for the collective good, and the good of the planet.

No word on whether or not the White House’s furnace will be “held back” to below the optimal orchid-growing temperature.

Hat tip:  Glenn Beck

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