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Obama made clear his animosity against America’s high standard of living based on low-cost electricity. [] he said, “under my plan [] electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket … “

Remember this is a president who said “under my plan electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket.” Obama seems to be doing everything he can to increase energy costs. Higher energy costs means fewer jobs. More ….

The economy stagnates. Syria burns. Scandals lap at his feet. China and Russia mock him, even as a “29-year-old hacker” revealed his nation’s spy secrets to the world. [ … tens of thousands of jobs killed, entire states impoverished. This at a time of chronically and crushingly high unemployment, slow growth, jittery markets and deep economic uncertainty.] How does President Obama respond? With a grandiloquent speech on climate change. – Charles Krauthammer

“White House is hesitant to say they’re having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what’s needed.” – Daniel P. Schrag, a White House climate adviser – Weekly Standard

“Never let a good disaster go to waste” and if you need one, make it up. A good scare creates power and a giant slush fund of taxpayer money.

“Any politician who bleats about high electricity prices needs to look no further than the stupid energy policies that are causing most of them. We do not have an energy crisis – we have an energy policy crisis.”

Illinois’ prices are so high because of the state’s additional gas sales tax burden.

EPA energy policy makers are unqualified and uninformed ideologues – who in their fervor to hasten environmental improvements are unnecessarily dictating that we waste our non-renewable energy to produce less non-renewable energy.

Obama’s nominee for interior secretary is another anti-energy, carbon taxing, wacko environmentalist consistent with Obama’s promise of making electricity rates “skyrocket.”

With the help of political cronies in high places, on both sides of the aisle, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has attempted, and failed, to push the PTC through in various bills: not once, not twice, but five times in a little over a year.