http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=electricity_in_the_united_states#tab2
Posted on 09/09/2014 8:42:16 AM PDT by walford
On Monday (Jun 2), the Obama Administration took a major step toward shutting down the US coal industry, a stated goal from his presidential campaign. The Environmental Protection Agency proposed sweeping new regulations to limit so-called “greenhouse gas” emissions from existing coal-fired power plants. These regulations would make coal-powered electrical generation in the US uneconomical. Under this plan, “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket” as the President promised in his 2008 campaign.
To what gain? The Wall Street Journal reported, “Based on the EPA's own carbon accounting, shutting down every coal-fired power plant tomorrow and replacing them with zero-carbon sources would reduce the Earth's temperature by about one-twentieth of a degree Fahrenheit in a hundred years.”
The effect of these regulations on the environment is up for debate, but what is not debatable is the severe impact on American prosperity that will come about as a result. Coal-powered plants currently produce nearly 40% of US electrical energy. Artificially reducing the energy supply by eliminating coal and retiring coal-powered plants will both increase prices and create shortages.
Energy price increases hit the poor three times as hard as middle income Americans. The lowest 10% of earners spend three times as much of their incomes on electricity as do middle income earners. The Administration’s “war on affordable energy” is clearly a war on the poor and a war on jobs.
Distortions in energy costs will disproportionately impact certain industries and disadvantage particular states, a further redistribution of income. Natural gas prices will rise as electricity generation becomes a larger competitor in that market. American manufacturers will lose sales in international markets as U.S. cost skyrocket. Every American business that uses electricity – and that is every American business – will have higher costs, and that means inflation in the prices of everything.
Generating plant closures will diminish the reliability of the electrical grid. Rolling blackouts and usage restrictions on electrical appliance use will be necessary to ration the lower supply. The public impact will be huge. You might not notice a small change in average global temperature, but you will notice when you can't turn on the lights.
The proposed new EPA regulations that will so dramatically affect every American, but will potentially only have a miniscule an impact on the environment, will not be put up for a vote. I have initiated a letter to the EPA Administrator opposing these proposed rules, and I will work in Congress to avert this disaster.
Collectivism is not about eliminating poverty; it is about eliminating wealth. And ultimately it is about power.
Ping.
Look out birds, it's going to get rough...
The liberal mentality:
ISIS starting Holocaust 2 - OK
Iran building nukes - OK
Mass invasion at the borders - OK
Highly questionable man made global warming - NOT OK!!!
#YouMightBeALiberal if you love the environment so much, you are willing to kill birds with wind farms.
It’s not about ‘global warming’.
It’s about destroying the American economy ... and thereby destroying the West.
0bama wants to turn American into a third-world pesthole like his beloved native Kenya.
BTW, where did Congress get the authority to create an “Environmental Protection Agency”, anyway?
the poor are already On Board....Its the “ever-shrinking middle class”..that these pukes are after.
Evidently solar is just as bad.
The chirp heard round the world...
Evidently solar is just as bad.
I should clarify that. The reflective mirrors and collector type of solar energy production that is.
Nixon did it.
Time to go solar.
If every roof was fitted with solar cells and collectors of today’s technology it would have cost less than destroying Saddam’s Iraq,AND provide quite a lot of energy. BUT there would have been a lot of hazardous waste from the manufacturing of those solar cells, and some other negatives.It still might have been a better long term investment.
NOTHING is free.
Wait until the commie libs find out that there isn’t any electricity to recharge their electric cars and iPhones. Thanks Barry! “Progressing” back to the Stone Age!
OK ...
Where did Nixon get the authority to establish an “Environmental Protection Agency”?
Where did Congress get the authority to emit the several layers of legislation that Nixon created the EPA to oversee?
Where they have since the original founders died - from themselves.
Exactly ...
Our government operates largely on stolen power, and large sections of it are wholly illegitimate.
Congress recognized the potency of the issue in late 1969 by passing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This statute recast the government’s role: formerly the conservator of wilderness, it now became the protector of earth, air, land, and water. The law declared Congressional intent to “create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony,” and to “assure for all Americans safe, healthful, productive, esthetically and culturally pleasing surroundings.” Henceforth, all federal agencies planning projects bearing on the environment were compelled to submit reports accounting for the likely consequences—the now famous Environmental Impact Statements (EISs). Secondly, NEPA directed the President to assemble in his Cabinet a Council on Environmental Quality.
http://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/guardian-origins-epa
Hydro at 52% of the 13%
The liberals want to tear down the dams as well.
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