I don’t have many good words for Harry Reid I think of him of power hungry person and that is putting it mildly so I guess had move on before I write something I regret Oh well have great day yall

It sounds a little like something Hugo Chavez would come up with.

So let’s see if I understand this correctly.
The gov.t controls the education system.They are trying to control the banking system.They want to have controlling interests in the auto industry.They want to take over the healthcare industry and regulate the drug companies and insurance providers.
Now Harry Reid wants to control the national power grid and nationalize that.

How are they not socialists…?

For the push back against the eco-marxists anti-energy plan of powering the US on sunshine and hot air.

…that one electron is pretty much just like another, doesn’t he?

“Special” power lines are a joke of a concept. If there’s economical power available and consumers of that power near enough to it, the power companies will build their own power lines. They don’t need the Feds to tell them where to build.

Were I a power company exec and someone in Congress told me where to build my power lines, I’d tell him, “Tell ya’ what. YOU write the checks and spend my company’s money. Just remember, there’s laws in my state against check fraud.”

This is interstate commerce. Just like the railroads etc. It is good to see a return to the Congressional job description.

Some States have been irresponsible. Mario Cuomo’s New York comes to mind. Actually decommissioned a nearly completed nuclear power plant on Long Island and told the utility to write it off on their Federal Taxes, Now Long Island and NYC are stuck in a continual power shortage. They have blackouts every summer. They even pulled down part of the Grid in New Jersey back in the summer of 2003.

So this is ok in a Federalist sense. When we take back Congress some real good can be accomplished.

Besides electric power, this GIGANTIC MONOPOLY that Harry Reid is intending to create at the federal level will surely have so much economic power against the states.

Besides failing the Anti-Trust test, this one will further shun PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENTS in the electric power market.

Usual suspicion: This move has a covert agenda of limiting the entry of financial feasible clean-coal and even natural gas projects in favor of the renewables, which the diary has mentioned.

Remember the fiasco of the “STRANDED COSTS” during the period of dergulation and privatization in the power industry? Do we want to repeat that?

Finally, how can we be so sure that such Huge Government-controlled company will be different from the fate of Fannie and Freddie?

If I want to bring in power from West Virginia to NJ, I’d have to cross PA to do so, but what incentive does PA have to facilitate the transfer on local rights of way? A federal siting law is probably a good thing. I doubt the execution of this concept by Reid will be useful in the slightest, but that said, perhaps something good could be salvaged out of this later. Does anyone doubt that the real purpose here is to ship Nevada solar across the Mojave into the LA basin over the squaks of enviros? Let these guys eat each other for lunch over this, no skin off my nose.