Good news on all fronts! This is a big step to the brighter day when my new plug-in hybrid car will be as climate-friendly using shore power vs.  running on its 40+ mpg gas engine. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, Colorado has the highest CO2-producing grid in the nation, so a gas car getting 38 mpg has the same impact as an electric.

I do hear that some of you care nothing for climate talk, air pollution or any other cost of burning fossil fuels. But do you like water? Put any value on it? Your grandparents, most of them farmers, certainly did. Coal-burning electrical plants consume plenty of water in their operation, while heating what's recovered to fish-killing levels. Because of this change, that water will be saved. What does Eastern Colorado need more than water?