We’re a super power? We have to be more long term in our thinking.
Duh!

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Over the next decade, U.S. demand for electrical power will grow more than three times as fast as new supplies, a utilities industry report said Monday.
Particularly vulnerable are Texas and states in the Northeast, Midwest and Mountain West, which could start experiencing electricity shortages in two or three years.
The study was the first of its kind by the North American Electric Reliability Council, which has enforcement powers under the administration’s 2005 energy reform bill and works in concert with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Council president Rick Sergel said the time has passed for short-term solutions to the nation’s energy problems.
“We have to be more long-term in our thinking, in our planning, in our commitments,” he said.
Although the council has been involved in energy matters since its formation in 1968 after the historic Northeast blackout, its profile has risen sharply in the last few years.

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