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Nov 27, 2013

Under Obama, Your Electricity Costs Have Already Skyrocketed | electricity costs have gone up 42%

.... in the last 10 years, electricity costs have gone up 42%. I noticed, did you? While not all the blame can be put on Obama (Bush was enabling the EPA as well), a great deal of it can and who can forget his famous quote on coal and energy in general:

From CNS News:

The price of electricity hit a record for the month of October, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That made October the eleventh straight month when the average price of electricity hit or matched the record level for that month.

The average price of electricity in October was 13.2 cents per kilowatt hour (KWH), up from 12.8 cents per KWH in October 2012—and up from 9.3 cents per KWH in October 2003.

Americans now pay 42 percent more for electricity than they did a decade ago.

Tighten your belts comrades… this is just the warm-up. In 2012, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricitycame out with a report that stated that 204 coal powered plants would shut down over the next 5 years...