Obama and McCain's stances on America's electrical infrastructure
Series: Blueprint America: The presidential candidates on infrastructure
From: Blueprint America
Length: 00:03:07
Part two of four Blueprint America reports, produced by Channel Thirteen/ WNET, PBS New York, with support from Rockefeller Foundation, of a series about the presidential candidates? views on America?s aging infrastructure. In part two, correspondent Rick Karr reports on how Sens. Obama and McCain stand on America's fraying electrical system.
As lawmakers on Capitol Hill talk about a stimulus bill that would spend heavily on infrastructure, including the nation's electrical supply, Karr speaks with former Energy Secretary Federico Pena, a spokesperson for the Obama campaign, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain?s senior economic advisor, about how the candidates would stop the nation's grid from going on the fritz.
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Part two of four Blueprint America reports, produced by Channel Thirteen/ WNET, PBS New York, with support from Rockefeller Foundation, of a series about the presidential candidates? views on America?s aging infrastructure. In part two, correspondent Rick Karr reports on how Sens. Obama and McCain stand on America's fraying electrical system. As lawmakers on Capitol Hill talk about a stimulus bill that would spend heavily on infrastructure, including the nation's electrical supply, Karr speaks with former Energy Secretary Federico Pena, a spokesperson for the Obama campaign, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain?s senior economic advisor, about how the candidates would stop the nation's grid from going on the fritz.
Transcript
INTRO: Americans take the electrical supply for granted. But the GRID ? the system that transmits electricity to homes and offices? is aging and prone to serious glitches; Engineers say that across the country blackouts are increasing at an alarming rate. The next president will have to address the grid ? and the rest of the country's crumbling infrastructure. In the second part of a series produced by the P-B-S Television project Blueprint America, Rick Karr reports on how Barack Obama and John McCain say they'd keep the lights on.
NARR: Evidence of just how rickety the country's electrical grid has become ... turned up on the afternoon of August fourteenth, two-thousand three: A small glitch in the grid in Ohio cascaded around the northeast, building in strength as it went, until finally it became a massive blackout that affected eight states and parts of Canada. Roger Anderso...
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INTRO: Americans take the electrical supply for granted. But the GRID ? the system that transmits electricity to homes and offices? is aging and prone to serious glitches; Engineers say that across the country blackouts are increasing at an alarming rate. The next president will have to address the grid ? and the rest of the country's crumbling infrastructure. In the second part of a series produced by the P-B-S Television project Blueprint America, Rick Karr reports on how Barack Obama and John McCain say they'd keep the lights on.
