Posted on 06/12/2011 9:19:54 AM PDT by nhwingut
Consumers could see their electricity bills jump an estimated 40 to 60 percent in the next few years.
The reason: Pending environmental regulations will make coal-fired generating plants, which produce about half the nation's electricity, more expensive to operate. Many are expected to be shuttered.
The increases are expected to begin to appear in 2014, and policymakers already are scrambling to find cheap and reliable alternative power sources. If they are unsuccessful, consumers can expect further increases as more expensive forms of generation take on a greater share of the electricity load.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
I’m looking into solar panels. Power bills are already too high for my tastes.
Under the category of: We will starve the red states.
You simply can’t say enough good about what caused our founders to rebel, but it will never happen as long as there is forced National Education (Indoctrination) policy.
As more plants run on natural gas, a lot of folks will have their heating bills go up along with their electric bills.
Thanks, obie!
The alien is not a American.
He is hellbent on destroying America. Electricity is gpoing to rocket. Oil and its byproducts the same. Unemploytment is rising. Costs to industry ...rising... costs to the household? Rising while income is dropping.
I wonder when the working stiff is going to figure out this Obama thing is just no good and needs to be evicted?
my only real drag anymore still is the fridge and the AC every now and again
More proof that supply side economics doesn’t work. /sarcasm.
The GOP needs to run that non-stop from now to election day...
The next step of the plan is Obama’s “smart grid” which will be used to ration electricity. Once the coal plants go offline and the solar panels and windmills fail to make up the slack the US will begin experiencing the frequent brownouts and blackouts of third world nations. When the sheeple bleat, the Marxists will nationalize the power companies and implement rationing in order to “fairly” distribute power while reducing carbon emissions so the greens can feel good.
Excuse my language but now that’s fucked up. Well, we had this coming after all we voted for “change” back in ‘08.
Wait until the blackouts hit. (Can I use the term “black out”?)
And, the Obama Administration also wants to increase Federal taxes on gasoline (by $1/gallon) to hand out to those on Welfare.
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