LBN: Plan Is Said to Tie Energy Plan to Economic Stimulus

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President-elect Barack Obama and leaders in Congress are fashioning a plan to pour billions of dollars into a jobs program to jolt the economy and lay the groundwork for a more energy-efficient economy.

The details and cost of the so-called green-jobs program are still unclear, but a senior Obama aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a work in progress, said it would probably include the weatherizing of hundreds of thousands of homes, the installation of “smart meters” to monitor and reduce home energy use, and billions of dollars in grants to state and local governments for mass transit and infrastructure projects.

The green component of the much larger stimulus plan would cost at least $15 billion a year, and perhaps considerably more, depending on how the projects were defined, aides working on the package said.

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But the Obama adviser who discussed the green energy project said Mr. Obama would not await passage of a global warming bill before embarking on the new energy and infrastructure spending. House and Senate supporters of a climate bill said they would continue working on legislative language but did not expect quick action on a cap-and-trade law because of the economic emergency.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/us/politics/04green.html?_r=1&ref=politics

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Take this shit to GD=P!!!

:rofl:

Or are you barred from posting there?

[sniffa]

2. This can always get locked and moved to LBN

It's only minutes old.

:shrug:

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Good point.

Should we alert on it?

:rofl:

You are killing me.

[sniffa]

5. You can if you like

I don't alert, and I won't make an exception for myself.

[arcadian]

4. Or to Energy and Environment or whatever.

n/t