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Our own fuels. new england is at the end of the natural gas pipeline. all the natural gas goes up through new york into new england. and a lot of the surrounding states have shutdown natural gas plants. renewables are great. you've got to have a good balance of renewables. but there has to be a transition into that process. first thing, do no harm. stop signing bad legislation. stop sign things for political reasons and look at your energy policy through the lens of the rate payer. it's the folks on low incomes, elderly, folks on pensions. they pay the electricity subsidy to subsidize the rene...

Entergy and the New Orleans City Council reached an agreement Thursday for a fomula rate plan for its customers. 

Is all about? free markets, innova vision, freedom -- innovation, freedom, liberty for the rate payer to actually decide what energy source they want to go with? >> reporter: she also argues it's a matter of energy security because solar panels, particularly ones that are installed on home, decentralize the grid and make it less vulnerable to terrorist or hacker attack, gregg. gregg: john, what do the environmentalists think about the marriage? >> reporter: i'll tell you, they are happy to have it, gregg. anything that helps them promote alternative sources of energy. the sierra club did admit...

first to our brand new cnn orc polls. this is issue number one, the economy. and a surprising jump in the number of americans who believe the economy will eventually get better. take a look at this. when asked about what economic conditions will be like next year, 60% now say they believe they will be good compared to only 39% who say conditions will be poorer. last fall when we asked the same question, those numbers were very different indeed. only 39% saying things would get better in the year to come. we sent our own joe johns to the key battleground state of ohio for a closer loo...