Colorado coal miners. Their own citizens.
Coal mines in yellow.
Posted on 02/15/2016 3:03:41 PM PST by george76
Across all sectors of Colorado the cost of electricity has skyrocketed more than 67 percent between 2001 and 2014, easily exceeding median income growth and the expected rate of inflation .
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For all sectors between 2001 and 2014, the cost per kilowatthour jumped from just over 6 cents to more than 10 cents, or 67.11 percent.
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the data for the remaining sectors emphasizes the double impact that increased energy costs have in the form of rapidly escalating electricity rates on Colorado ratepayers, who see not only their own personal energy costs rise, but are hit a second time by commercial, industrial, and transportation charges that are "baked into" the cost of providing goods and services that are passed on to consumers.
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The best explanation for this confounding upward trend in utility bills nationwide is the Obama's administration's war on coal. Colorado, alas, was well ahead of the curve on the war on coal, which explains much of why the state's rate increases are presently so much greater than the nationwide average...
Part of the war on coal, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized the Clean Power Plan in August 2015.
The policy battle over the EPA's Clean Power Plan, and the future of Colorado's electricity rates, rests upon multi-state legal challenges to the agency's authority that just last week resulted in a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court. That decision was overshadowed, however, by the subsequent death of Justice Antonin Scalia days later, leaving the legal challenge in turmoil given the SCOTUS' delicate and likely 4-4 ideological split and the contentious election year battle over nominations to replace Scalia.
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commercial electricity rates for Colorado have seen a 77.78 percent increase from 2001 to 2014, jumping from 5.67 cents per kilowatthour to 10.08 cents.
(Excerpt) Read more at energy.i2i.org ...
Green is the color of money. Barium burns green and it will kill you too.
That was one of Obama's campaign promises...
Union bosses likely getting kickbacks ; Union members losing their jobs and more due to the watermelons. Not just coal miners, pipeline welders, and more.
Fedgov is allowing this as well to reduce population in future agenda 21 nogo zones out west.
I am of the opinion that electricity will continue to rise and that NG will flatten or fall in price. As such, I have converted my stove to NG and house heat is NG as well.
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Thanks for the good map.
Why MUST electricity prices skyrocket? Hurts the serfs / middle class so they have less disposable income. Or is that the purpose - to raise the misery index on the peasant class. What’s the end game for the socialist in charge?
Are you sure those are coal mines, I live close to several of the dots, but there are no mines near me.
Obama wants all to live in a project.
I guess the Colorado low-info voters got what they asked for, both in 2008 and 2012.
I grabbed the first map I found. They include historical mines, the active ones are hard to distinguish. Sorry.
Ritter and Hickenlooper started us down this path before Obama had EPA ram it down the throats of the entire country.
I feel so bad for them at $.10 p/kwh I’m only paying $.34 p/kwh winter rates. /s
I believe that’s a map of all coal deposits, not producing properties. 20 Mile CC is running in Routt but Sage Creek, its replacement, is idle. Trapper in Moffat, ColoWyo and Desirado on the boundary of Moffat And Rio Blanco are producing. Empire, Reneau #2, Northern #1 could all be redeveloped. There are also several undeveloped seams in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties, including one of 100 feet and another 300 feet, both of which probably exceed current technology to recover.
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