President Elect Obama:  I would recommend that consideration be given to spending some education funds to support a consortium of new energy technology companies and community colleges to develop and implement training programs for those new technologies.  For example,  locally , Germanna Community College has a technology center with plenty of acreage avaialbe to it.  Could not this be a location for training in the building and operating of wind mills and solar power operations for electricity generation?  As so many people have lost their jobs (and will continue to do so) and as there appears to be an increase in the number of people going back for education/training in other fields, this would be a prime opportunity to move forward in advancing your ideas for reducing our reliance on oil and reducing carbon emissions while providing the needed training for the technicians in these areas.  As these technologies come on line in earnest, folks needing jobs will be ready to do the work.