If anyone has it - please post it.
January 2008: Early in his first campaign for the White House, then-Senator Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle:
”Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.... Coal-powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”obama 2008 campaign video coal prices skyrocket
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V22BN4-845A
November 2, 2008
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/11/02/obama-ill-make-energy-prices-skyrocket/
...”The problem is not technical, uh, and the problem is not mastery of the legislative intricacies of Washington. The problem is, uh, can you get the American people to say, “This is really important,” and force their representatives to do the right thing? That requires mobilizing a citizenry. That requires them understanding what is at stake. Uh, and climate change is a great example.You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know — Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.
They — you — you can already see what the arguments will be during the general election. People will say, “Ah, Obama and Al Gore, these folks, they’re going to destroy the economy, this is going to cost us eight trillion dollars,” or whatever their number is. Um, if you can’t persuade the American people that yes, there is going to be some increase in electricity rates on the front end, but that over the long term, because of combinations of more efficient energy usage, changing lightbulbs and more efficient appliance, but also technology improving how we can produce clean energy, the economy would benefit.
If we can’t make that argument persuasively enough, you — you, uh, can be Lyndon Johnson, you can be the master of Washington. You’re not going to get that done.”……………
That was my first thought as well.
And I see a few FReepers have given you the links.
I heard a radio discussion on this the other day and they were BRAGGING 0bama does not even need to go through congress to get this done. 0bama and the EPA already have the authority through various legislation to get this done.
As much as I would like to see 0bama put out of office...the real culprit here are the congresses, that over the years, delegated their power away to the executive branch through legislation. They (congress) has no authority under the current form of government to ‘check the executive power.
Protesters demonstrate against proposed Duke rate hike
http://www.energybiz.com/article/13/06/protesters-demonstrate-against-proposed-duke-rate-hike
Duke Energy, the corporate parent of both Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress, has defended its rate-increase requests as allowing it to recover billions of dollars invested in upgrading its ability to generate power and complying with state and federal environmental regulations.
At the courthouse rally, protesters held signs such as “Affordable Energy is a Right”