Stimulus Funds Speed Transformation Toward 'Smart Grid' - WSJ.com

The smart-grid market "may be bigger than the whole Internet," said John Chambers, chief executive of networking giant Cisco.

BeldarBlog: End legislative malpractice by amending the Constitution

Accordingly: I would genuinely support a Constitutional amendment which required every Congressman and Senator, upon casting every vote, to swear under penalty of perjury — with existing perjury criminal penalties, PLUS instant disqualification from office — that he or she had read every word of everything he or she voted upon. Not just a summary (although they could read summaries too, if they chose) or a recommendation (again, fine as a supplement, but not as a replacement).

John Kerry: ‘Cap-and-trade’ is out « Green Hell Blog

So the Democrats have gone from “global warming” to “climate change” to “clean energy” because the public doesn’t buy what they’re selling. Now they’re jettisoning “cap-and-trade” hoping that some other name will stick to the wall.

While Democrats can call economically disastrous carbon caps whatever they want, they can’t buff the cap-and-trade turd or any other carbon cap regime into a public policy popsicle.

Hey John, why don’t you just call it the “Free Candy for Everybody Act of 2009″?

Battle brews in California over expanding carpool-lane access - Sacramento News

One of California's most coveted motoring perks is up for grabs again.

The yellow decals that give nearly 85,000 solo drivers of fuel-sipping hybrids – mainly Toyota Priuses – free access to the state's carpool lanes are set to expire at the end of 2010.
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[From the comment section] "A car is a car is a car. Go back to the original intention of the carpool lanes. They were created to move more people in fewer cars quicker. Thus, there would be fewer cars on the road. A single person in a hybrid defeates the purpose.