Our energy transport system is balkanized and horribly inefficient. Unfortunately, many of the incumbent utilities want to keep it that way. The bush energy plan hits hard on increasing production. That alone won't solve the nation's power crunch. "Supply is not the only issue," says Michelle Michot Soss, director of the Energy Institute at the University of Houston. "The issue is bottlenecks." Some of these bottlenecks are political. A lot of them are created by incumbent utilities that do not welcome competition.
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