"Necessarily Skyrocket"

We all remember Candidate Obama’s plan to make you pay through the nose and out your behind for electricity. Cap & Trade didn’t quite come to pass, but don’t you worry — the EPA won’t rest until we’re in the dark:

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, a proposed regulation limiting carbon emissions from existing coal-fired plants, threatens to jeopardize the reliability that Americans and businesses have come to depend upon. The EPA proposal calls for states to cut emissions by 30% from 2005 levels by 2030. It also imposes aggressive interim targets starting in 2020 that will test states’ ability to meet these standards without disrupting service. For example, 39 states must achieve more than 50% of their final target by 2020.

Reliable power requires decades of careful planning. The appropriate amount and type of round-the-clock generation capacity, transmission and distribution lines must be finely balanced in advance to ensure the lights go on when a switch is flipped anywhere in the U.S. The EPA plan will significantly impair that planning process.

Assuming you have anything left over after making good on all your ♡bamaCare!!! copays and deductibles, the rest will be going to your local utility company just to prevent rolling brownouts.