JeffM wrote :

Devil's Advocate wrote:
"We've got basically an old electricity network that leaks electricity,
it leaks energy, all the time." - President Obama

LOL!

http://google.com/search?q=define:metaphor

...and it's the old meme of buying cheap up front
instead of thinking about the long run.
Short -term thinking has gotten us into the mess we're in.
Imagine if we had a grid with transformers
that were 96% efficient instead of 92% efficient.
Somebody is paying for that 4% loss right now--and it's YOU.


So he'll make it far far worse:

“Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would
necessarily skyrocket.” – Barack Obama