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Obama’s
big freeze for America
By
Rick Manning
An
Obama Department of Energy official told the House Energy and
Commerce Committee today that Administration policies aimed at coal
fired electric generation would increase the wholesale cost of
electricity by 70 to 80 percent.
The
admission that Obama environmental policy proscriptions targeting the
coal fired utility industry would dramatically increase the cost of
turning on the lights, as well as heating and cooling homes is news.
But this Administration’s gross disregard for the least of these in
our society is the headline even though it is not surprising to those
paying attention.
As
the Energy Department is trying to almost double the price of coal
fired electric generation, the EPA has regulations that would ban the
production and sale of 80 percent of wood burning stoves in the
country. With 12 percent of all homes in the U.S. primarily dependent
upon burning wood for heat and cooking, the EPA measure will hit
right at the heart of many people’s ability to stay warm in the
long, cold winters.
Apparently,
the Obama Administration would rather that people—who are
struggling to keep their heads above water under the yoke of his
failed economic policies—freeze to death as the federal government
strips away affordable and available home heating options.
This
is liberal compassion. And it can be anticipated that more tax
dollars flow to government programs to help the indigent with their
heating costs, now that their environmental policies have exacerbated
the need.
After
all, the utility company gets the blame when electricity costs go up,
not the federal government that deliberately drove those costs
through the roof.
And
no one can figure out why they can’t find a wood stove anymore for
their home, so they are tied to the electrical grid for heating and
cooking.
But
politicians get credit when they give these same people other
people’s money to pay for some of the increased costs, and the very
victims of the crazy environmental policies that caused the problems
then reward the very politicians responsible with their votes.
In a
nutshell, that is the big government environmentalist scam. Create
market scarcity through regulations, meet scarcity with government
handouts which entices your victims to vote for you and repeat
process. All the while, our nation’s economy gets destroyed.
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