Obama's Smart Grid + Plugin Hybrids

It's been mentioned several times on the campaign trail by Barack Obama, the need to build up US infrastructure around clean energy and electricity (to send wind and solar energy into major cities to be used by cleaner devices). In a recent video interview with Rachel Maddow, the first video on this page, he connected the vision of renewable energy production to plugin hybrid cars and ultimately electric cars and other EV's. A direct quote from that interview follows:

"if you're going to spend deficit spending...then it better be in rebuilding our roads, our bridges (instead of Iraq)...one of the most important infrastructure projects that we need is a whole new electricity grid. Because if we're going to be serious about renewable energy, I want to be able to get wind power from North Dakota to population centers like Chicago and we're going to have to have a smart grid if we want to use plugin hybrids then we want to be able to have ordinary consumers sell back the electricity that's generated".

Now that Obama is on his way to the Whitehouse the construction of a smart grid is one step closer to being realized, laying the much needed foundation to support electric vehicles long term, making electricity more and more competitive with gasoline in terms of price.