You Think Your Electric Bill Is High Now?

Wait till Wednesday.  The Democrats plan on jacking them up a whole lot more.

In an effort to fight global warming.

Despite the fact that the globe isn't warming.

For the love of God:

Cap-and-Trade Is Back
By Brian Sussman, American Thinker

On Wednesday, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) plan to introduce legislation designed to inflate the cost of energy, strain family budgets, and decimate America's manufacturing sector -- all in the name of supposedly saving the climate.

My insiders also say the new Kerry-Lieberman proposal will keep the House bill's goal of attaining a 17-percent reduction of greenhouse gases (below their 2005 level) by 2020. Apparently the Senate bill will allow cap-and-trade to hit power companies first, and then within six years include the manufacturing sector.

This is a bill that will cause all of us to suffer great loss.

So where will the 17% cut come from, especially given that (according to U.S. census projections) there will be an additional 30 million people in the United States by 2020? If the cuts are distributed proportionately, the biggest blow will be to electricity production. Since 50 percent of our nation's electricity is derived from coal, that industry and its customers will be hit hardest. Coal plants are going to have to be shuttered. And what will replace that energy resource? Nothing.  [link]

A sentence worth repeating to Congressman Rick Boucher, Democrat, 9th Congressional District, coalfield counties of Virginia:

"Since 50 percent of our nation's electricity is derived from coal, that industry and its customers will be hit hardest."

Make note: He's already voted for this legislation.  He'll be voting only to reconcile his version with this Senate version if it passes. We're almost dead already.

All this to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

These people must be stopped.  Our futures depend on it.