Lost in the din of a minor furor over President Obama's massive
"global warming" tax -- "minor" because it, too, is lost ever
further within the proposal's host of wealth transfers and
social engineering -- is that Obama is on record telling us why
he's doing this.
As was well-covered at the time [CORRECTION: this actually was
never mentioned by the Chronicle, nor anyone else until a sharp
eye caught it months later, at which point it garnered brief if
in certain quarters furious attention] and yet which has slipped
into the recesses of our minds so quickly, subsumed by a tsunami
of other outrages, in a January 17, 2008 interview with the
San Francisco Chronicle Senator
Obama
said that
"electricity
rates would necessarily skyrocket" under his plan to
fight global warming. He
also said that
under his plan, "if somebody wants to build a
coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt
them."
Watch
him say it himself, then pass it along to remind our friends
in the cheerleading establishment press corps.
There's no doubt that -- in addition to hugely taxing your energy
in the name of essentially funding Loch Ness Monster
Insurance, but really to pay for a new welfare entitlement --
this budget is designed to bankrupt coal and anyone who seeks to
burn it by causing your energy prices to skyrocket. According to
its author.
Fortunately electricity comes from the wall, so there's no doubt
also a program in this monstrosity to purchase power strips
for everyone, doubling our supply overnight.
