[soycd]

Green is the color of money. Barium burns green and it will kill you too.

[17th Miss Regt]

the cost of electricity has skyrocketed

That was one of Obama's campaign promises...

[stocksthatgoup]

Colorado has elected 17 Democrats and 12 Republicans to the governorship in the last 100 years. Incumbent Governor John Hickenlooper, who was elected in 2010, is a Democrat, and his predecessor, Governor Bill Ritter, who won election in 2006 is also a Democrat....... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You get the government you deserve!

[frankenMonkey]

And you know who the Colorado legislature and governor hurt the most?
Colorado coal miners. Their own citizens.


Coal mines in yellow.

[null and void]

[Secret Agent Man]

Fedgov is allowing this as well to reduce population in future agenda 21 nogo zones out west.

[taxcontrol]

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.

[george76]

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)

[bkopto]

I guess the Colorado low-info voters got what they asked for, both in 2008 and 2012.

[colorado tanker]

Ritter and Hickenlooper started us down this path before Obama had EPA ram it down the throats of the entire country.

[VTenigma]

I feel so bad for them at $.10 p/kwh I’m only paying $.34 p/kwh winter rates. /s

[RetiredTexasVet]

Well that doping industry out to cover a part of the job losses and smoking it will make the pain disappear for the rest of the job losers and general public ... remember tok’n aint smok’n!

[Slambat]

“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 .”

That’s every where and it’s all a scam. It’s all about forcing
people to sign on to 1-5 year contracts. On a typical no
contract account with Reliant Energy I was paying 13 cents
kwh. Then they offered me their “great deal” of 10 cents kwh. So I looked around and found it at 4 cents kwh.
somewhere else but that was only with a 1 year contract.
Of course that’s here in Texas where market competition is
allowed it may not be so in Colorado.

[Kickass Conservative]

If they just started burning Pot at their Power Plants, they could kill two Birds with one Stoner.

[HollyB]

I found this interesting. From a recent report that I just read:

Finally, the discussion of energy security would not be complete without addressing the demand side.
While issues of energy conservation, energy efficiency, and demand reduction are largely out of scope for
this installment of the QER, they are nonetheless relevant for energy security. Figure 4-1 shows U.S. energy demand as projected by EIA through 2040. These projections indicate that U.S. liquid fuel demand is expected
to grow through 2018 and then begin a slow decline for the remainder of the period. In contrast, EIA projects
a steady growth through the projection period for both electricity and natural gas. However, it should be
noted that EIA’s projections do not consider regulations that are not yet finalized. Thus, EIA projections do not
account for electricity supply and demand changes likely to occur from implementation of the Environmental
Protection Agency’s “Clean Power Plan,” because it has not yet been finalized.

http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/04/f22/QER-ALL%20FINAL_0.pdf

(sections 4-3)

http://www.nerc.com/AboutNERC/keyplayers/Documents/ERO_Enterprise_Operating_Model_Feb2014.pdf