Kiss prosperity goodbye

The passage of the cap and tax bill in the House is bad juju for every American out there who gives a damn about prosperity and living a good life. I’m not being a doomer, I’m just speaking frank about the fact that the merry band of idiots we call representatives (and that’s the nicest thing I can call them) has sold the America that we know down the river so that they can look good in the eyes of the Sierra Club, Al Gore and Obama. There is no other reason for them to have done this. Global warming is a lie. Climate change is a fallacy since, well, change is something that happens regardless of our interference. And alternative energy won’t work when it’s shackled by government and environmentalists.

Xcel Energy’s president, a firm supporter of this push, admits that they will have to shutter a number of their coal and natural gas power plants to meet the goals. They don’t care. It won’t hurt them. They’ll just raise rates on the consumer, and since we’re stuck in horrible government-regulated monopolies with the power companies, we have to either suck it up or not have electricity. There is no third option.

Oh, and don’t think that the power companies won’t be raising rates to deal with this cap and trade bullcrap. In an effort to start the process, Kansas City Power and Light requested regulatory approval to raise their rates by$71.6 million. Luckily the government “only” allowed them to raise their rates by $59 million (or a 14.43% increase per average household’s monthly bill). And why the increase?

“Environmental upgrades.”

And think about this… Cap and tax hasn’t even gone into effect yet. What will happen once all of our power companies are forced to start shuttering their plants and replace them with other sources of energy?

So think about this and who voted “yes” on this bill… And then make sure you appropriately thank your representative for this next time you get a chance. After all, you were just told to go suck an egg in the name of your representative looking “green.” I bet you feel special now, don’t you?