The objective of this plan is to make lighting, heat, air conditioning, refrigeration, hot water, televisions, radios, computers, and everything else that uses electricity utterly unaffordable to increasingly large segments of the middle classes and unfathomable to rapidly increasing poor and destitute classes. Electricity in the very near future—certainly in four years—will become a luxury, and the overwhelming majority of the people will need to learn to live without it. Even for the affluent, electricity supplies will become erratic and unreliable. These trends will lead businesses that use electricity to increase prices drastically while decreasing availability of their products while dropping jobs and wages. We’re all getting much poorer very quickly beginning in 2009.
I doubt that dramatic increases will happen that fast. In Colorado, commercial users will bear the brunt of higher rates shielding residential customers. The rats will tout job gains in their energy economy and find scapegoats for job losses in other parts of the economy. The rats are pushing hard to nationalize this CO2 nonsense to prevent conservative states from making the liberal states look bad. We need a conservative president to stop this madness.