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Jennifer Granholm on Technology
Democratic Governor (MI)
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Advocates for manufacturing, domestic R&D efforts
Granholm has a history of advocating for domestic manufacturing as a necessary complement to domestic R&D efforts, for instance with companies manufacturing components for electric vehicles.
As secretary of energy, she would be able to approach those priorities on a much larger scale through the DOE's far-reaching research and investment portfolio.
Source: HPC Wire on Biden Cabinet Confirmation Hearings
, Dec 21, 2020
We have failed to invest in our physical infrastructure
[In summer 2003 we experienced a 2-day blackout]. As circuit breakers tripped at generating stations from NY to Michigan and into Canada, millions of people were affected. "What's the lesson here?" I asked the chair of Michigan's Public Service
Commission, the body that regulated utilities and electricity lines. "It's pretty simple, actually," the chair told me. "We've failed to invest in the power grid. Now the facilities are old, deregulation has removed responsibility for investment, and
the infrastructure has become enormously fragile."
The blackout was symptomatic of deeper, systemic stresses. It involved the failure to maintain and invest intelligently in our human and physical infrastructure. For decades, we'd preferred to pretend
that the systems we relied upon to make life worthwhile could be wholly self-correcting and self-supporting. Now those decades of neglect were taking their toll--first in small, chronic failures, then in massive, catastrophic breakdowns.
Source: A Governor's Story, by Jennifer Granholm, p. 40
, Oct 1, 2005
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