US plans major Asian power grid ~

BBC ^ | Thursday, 27 April 2006, 21:20 GMT 22:20 UK | Ian MacWilliam BBC Central Asia correspondent

[gondramB]

>>I think it is meant to help the people over there and I would think they would pay....we might help in planning...for a fee .<<

I hope you are right - we already have enough government spending and an unbelievable deficit.

[gondramB]

>>As far as the cost, while the US will certainly put up some money, most of the money could be loaned through the World Bank or some other similar agency. To prevent the countries from defaulting on their loans, there would be the transmission grid and power plants that could be used as collateral.<<

that sounds much better than American tax payer funding.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: "We've got to develop the power grid in India, so that all those outsourced companies will have sufficient energy to stay outsourced. Of course, its necessary to use our tax dollars to do this, as the situation is too unstable for businesses to risk their own capital, even though their executives reap the benefits of third world labor costs."

Excellent point! And absolutely true.

With minimal sarcasm I say, good old government interference saves the day! Gee, why do American capitalists hate government interference so much? It works so well for them.

[dr_who_2]

We ought to piss off the Russians for the right reasons only. More to the point, who is paying for all this? World-wide dollar diplomacy is going to quickly turn from being a futile gesture to a great way to bankrupt the country. Wars are expensive enough.

[RusIvan]

The impoverished mountainous republics of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan both want to develop their large hydro-electricity potential. ==

Large hydroelectricity potential? Both countries doesn't have no major river:).

Kazakhstan, with abundant oil and gas, is rapidly becoming a top energy producer while Turkmenistan has some of the world's largest gas reserves. ==

Kazakstan has something and Turkmenistand too. But both counries rulked by nondemocartic regimes. Seems like it is not important here but important about Russia. DOuble morality isn' it?:)