Modernizing aging infrastructure?

Are Americans being called upon to pay for modernizing an aging infrastructure? Or are they being called upon to pay for Obama's promise to destroy the coal industry in America?

Laura Colarusso on why electricity bills are rising. Utilities across the country need more money for grid updates and pollution controls, and are passing the huge bill on to consumers. Already weary of high gas prices and 9.1 percent unemployment, many Americans are about to get another kick in the wallet thanks to large increases in their electricity bills.

From Alaska to Georgia and Wyoming to Florida, utilities are seeking permission to pass on hundreds of millions of dollars in new charges to customers to help upgrade aging infrastructure and build new or retrofitted power plants that comply with tougher environmental regulations, a Daily Beast review of regulatory filings has found.

The influx of requests, many still pending before state regulators, has left energy experts convinced that electricity prices will be on the rise for the foreseeable future as the industry struggles to modernize its aging infrastructure.

While the Obama administrating have been incessantly bashing and further regulating the American coal industry and demonizing the oil industry, because of their alleged responsibility for leading the world in global warming, there are a few facts being conveniently and purposefully overlooked by this administration.

The dumb masses are gullible and will accept anything the media presents them, just as long as they have their reality programs to follow and their facebook and twitter accounts to play on. Here is a bit of the truth: "China now uses more coal than the United States, Europe and Japan combined, making it the world’s largest emitter of gases that are warming the planet." But the spin by those at the New York Times and other media sources ignores this reality completely and continues to paint America as the only real pollution villain in the world.

Via the New York Times

China has emerged in the past two years as the world’s leading builder of more efficient, less polluting coal power plants, mastering the technology and driving down the cost. While the United States is still debating whether to build a more efficient kind of coal-fired power plant that uses extremely hot steam, China has begun building such plants at a rate of one a month.

Obama and the environmentalists speak and the leftist media immediately goes into spin mode to prop up and support the representations that are purposely slanted and minus key information and comparative data. 

Well of course the Chinese have more existing coal plants and are building more everyday, but they are going green and doing it the right way!

You really think so huh.....

Prepare to get spanked by your local power company, because you have sat idly by and allowed the Obama administration to levy heavy EPA penalties and unrealistic and unneeded regulations on an already struggling and overburdened American energy grid system. Keep drinking the administration approved and media propelled Kool Aid and keep believing that all you have to do is "your part" and the world will suddenly become Nirvana.

Mean while, watch what happens to your pocketbook and watch what happens to jobs and the economy and your standard of living as we continue to allow our culture and our economy to be degraded by the spread of Obama's socialist policies.

How are you going to feel after your energy prices go up 30% over the next three years and in the end, you still end up having to significantly alter your individual energy consumption. I guess it will feel less painful because you will know that  "you are doing your part to save the planet." And one last note......GM (Govt. Motors) has a lot of those new Volts still available. Better hurry and avoid the rush! GM has only sold 73 of the $60,000 dream vehicles in the last quarter. Far short of their intended goal of 10,000 But what's reality got to do with reality anyway.

Cheers fellow time travelers!  And pass the Kool Aid!