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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I don't know anything about this group connected to gore.  I don't think that 
a nationwide centralized electrical grid sounds like a good idea 
though....bobford


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WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2008 (Reuters) — Al Gore's Alliance for Climate 
Protection has some environmental advice for the incoming Obama 
administration: focus on energy efficiency and renewable resources, and 
create a unified U.S. power grid.


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www.eurekafacts.comOn Thursday, the group Gore founded rolled out a new media 
campaign to push for immediate investments in three energy areas it maintains 
would help meet Gore's previously announced challenge to produce 100 percent 
clean electricity in the United States in a decade.

Pegged to Obama's election victory on Tuesday, the Gore group's ads on 
television, in newspapers and online, pose the question, "Now what?"

"Our nation just made history," one video says. "We have an historic 
opportunity to boost our economy and repower America with 100 percent clean 
electricity within 10 years. It will create new American jobs, end our 
addiction to dirty coal and foreign oil and solve the climate crisis."

More information on the campaign is available online at 
http://repoweramerica.org.

Gore -- former vice president, Nobel Peace laureate and star of the 
Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" -- has said repeatedly he 
wants to play no official government role in the fight against climate change.

But with environmental activists talking about a possible "climate czar" in 
President-elect Barack Obama's White House, Gore's name inevitably gets 
mentioned.

IMMEDIATE ENERGY INVESTMENTS

The plan advocates immediate investment in energy efficiency, renewable power 
generation -- including public investment in wind, solar and geothermal 
technology -- and the creation of a unified national smart grid.

"Modernize transmission infrastructure so that clean electricity generated 
anywhere in America can power homes and businesses across the nation," the 
alliance said in a statement.

The alliance favors "national electricity 'interstates' that move power 
quickly and cheaply to where it needs to be (and) local smart grids that buy 
and sell power from households and support clean plug-in cars."

Gore and his group are in line with most U.S. environmental groups, which see 
the next administration as a chance to act to stem global warming, after what 
many see as the Bush administration's stalling on this issue.

R.K. Pachauri, head of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 
who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Gore in 2007, sounded a similar note in 
a statement issued after the vote.

"The U.S. now has a unique opportunity to assume leadership in meeting the 
threat of climate change, and it would help greatly if the new president were 
to announce a coherent and forward looking policy soon after he takes 
office," Pachauri said on his blog at http://blog.rkpachauri.org/.

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4a58n6-us-usa-election-gore/