Yahoo! News - Scientists Had Warned of Weak Power Grid: "Scientists and engineers with the National Research Council (news - web sites) warned the White House and Congress about the vulnerability of the power grid as recently as November, saying nationwide weaknesses needed to be repaired — and fast.
Little has been done, despite a chorus of experts who've pushed since well before Sept. 11 to fix a grid that's riddled with threadbare links and plagued by chronic shortages.
'The power grid has not gotten much more than important conversations since Sept. 11,' said Paul Gilbert, a member of the National Academy of Engineering (news - web sites), which worked on the report for the National Research Council. "

Anyone else notice a pattern here?

"Little has been done". Those are the operative words--the Bush admin has been ineffective in addressing basic problems. Just as it didn't act on warnings pre 9/11, Bush has not responded to warnings of basic problems that have resulted in the loss of power to a number of Americans equivalent to the population of the UK.

What will he do? Send more work to his buddies. Be sure of that. More emergency contracts for Bechtel and Halliburton?
- posted by geoff @ #