Promise Me, Dad:, by Joe Biden: on Technology

Joe Biden: $15B initiative to rebuild energy & water infrastructure

[In 2014], the secretary of energy had been asking me to take the lead in pushing a $15 billion initiative to rebuild the country's aging energy infrastructure. This was a urgent and much-needed fix. Power outages caused by storms, especially along shorelines, were costing Americans billions of dollars a year because the electricity grid needed to be modernized. An inexcusable number of the nation's water pipelines were still made of WOOD. Gas lines around the country were springing leaks, and no wonder. Many had been put in the ground back when Eisenhower was president. Dangerous amounts of methane gas were escaping into the atmosphere at every stage of the natural gas supply chain. My job was to sell the plan to key members of the House and Senate, and I was hoping to get real bipartisan support. Source: Promise Me, Dad,by Joe Biden, p. 86 Nov 14, 2017

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