Thursday, June 05, 2014

JUST A COINCIDENCE: Red States to Bear Brunt of Dramatically Higher Electricity Prices Thanks to Obama EPA

Courtesy of the Institute for 21st Century Energy, the accompanying map offers an estimate of the costs the Obama EPA will extract from consumers.

Remember: the one campaign promise Mr. Obama kept was that "energy prices would necessarily skyrocket" under his Ozmandian efforts to control the climate de-industrialize America promote renewable energy.


As Dave Blount astutely observes:

Of course, increasing energy costs drives up the price of literally all goods and services, in addition to destroying jobs, so this only scratches the surface. What we are witnessing is the deliberate lowering of the American standard of living out of ideologically motivated malice by executive fiat.

The highest price of all won’t come in terms of dollars, but will be paid in something more precious still: liberty. Obama and other extremists in the government tried to impose this regulation through legislative means but failed. So Congress was shoved aside; the rules are to be imposed by unelected and unaccountable EPA bureaucrats. The division of powers established by the Constitution is collapsing because Congress evidently does not have the character to defend its domain from usurpation by the executive branch.

Please note the price hikes for Red States -- the heart of America -- versus the Blues. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

Meanwhile, China brings 200 dirty coal plants online every year.

And the EPA is curiously silent about that.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Reward our friends, punish our enemies?

Anonymous said...

The bastard up in NY....Lil' Mario just doubled the price of a Kwhr. Saying he wants to entice power companies to build new plants.

Now that Coal is dead, what are they gonna build? Not nukes in dopey lib land..I'm sure.

Geo

Anonymous said...

The Institute for 21st Century Energy is an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbies for the immediate expansion of domestic fossil fuel energy production from sources like oil, methane gas and coal and also promotes traditional nuclear plants. The Institute for 21st Century Energy also opposes and lobbies for reducing regulations on the energy industry.