Posted on 07/31/2015 7:54:24 AM PDT by rktman
The EPA’s regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants highlights the job-killing transition proposed by the administration. This carbon agenda, which the administration’s public relations team calls the “Clean Power Plan”, threatens to tear down the existing electricity generation infrastructure in the name of carbon dioxide emissions. This carbon agenda will magnify the market-distorting subsidies from the PTC—contributing to an estimated peak of one million job losses—will drain hundreds of billions of dollars from American families through increased energy bills, and will threaten the electric grid by rapidly switching from reliable to intermittent sources of electricity. Further, electricity from new wind energy sources is nearly three times more expensive than electricity from existing coal-fired plants.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
The only true thing that ever came out of Obama’s mouth: “Under my plan, electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket.”
But what’s the net gain in energy?
War on Coal bummp
recall the lines of youngsters waiting to vote
recent report that human brains are fully developed until age 25
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