Electricity Prices Soaring in the United States

[Coito ergo sum]

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industrie ... titialskip

Households paid a record $1,419 on average for electricity in 2010, the fifth consecutive yearly increase above the inflation rate, a USA TODAY analysis of government data found. The jump has added about $300 a year to what households pay for electricity. That's the largest sustained increase since a run-up in electricity prices during the 1970s

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[Seth]

Just as Obama promised: "Under my plan, energy prices would necessarily skyrocket..."

[Tyrannical]

Electricity is pretty cheap for what it provides.
Power is only about $4 a day, how much would someone have to pay you to forgo power for 30 days?

[Coito ergo sum]

Electricity is pretty cheap for what it provides.
Power is only about $4 a day, how much would someone have to pay you to forgo power for 30 days?

The increase in cost of power disproportionately impacts the poor. Therefore, as the price of power goes up, the volume of the cacophony calling for means-based pricing of power will likewise go up... and, if college should be a human right, as free as the air we breathe, then why not electricity?

[Jason]

Electricity is pretty cheap for what it provides.
Power is only about $4 a day, how much would someone have to pay you to forgo power for 30 days?

The increase in cost of power disproportionately impacts the poor. Therefore, as the price of power goes up, the volume of the cacophony calling for means-based pricing of power will likewise go up... and, if college should be a human right, as free as the air we breathe, then why not electricity?

and beer, sex and rock and roll!


..or is that included in 'college'?

[Ele]

The survivalists who could no longer afford electricity will still have guns. And the smarter ones will have generators. They'll all get by. In their own crazy freedom worshipping of the wealthy who let them have guns kinda way.

[Coito ergo sum]

Electricity is pretty cheap for what it provides.
Power is only about $4 a day, how much would someone have to pay you to forgo power for 30 days?

The increase in cost of power disproportionately impacts the poor. Therefore, as the price of power goes up, the volume of the cacophony calling for means-based pricing of power will likewise go up... and, if college should be a human right, as free as the air we breathe, then why not electricity?

and beer, sex and rock and roll!


..or is that included in 'college'?

When I went to school, it was all-inclusive.

[eXcommunicate]

Just as Obama promised: "Under my plan, energy prices would necessarily skyrocket..."

Have a citation within context?

[JimC]

They've been steadily increasing here, too...

Going to look at solar panels on the roof soon, to at least get some Watts from the great fusion generator in the sky...

[Seth]

Just as Obama promised: "Under my plan, energy prices would necessarily skyrocket..."

Have a citation within context?

Occurred during an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle in 2008, during the campaign.

Here's a nice explanation of the context:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... -skyrocke/

Here's a number of his quotes in re cap and trade:

http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.o ... nd-energy/