{"id":15235,"date":"2012-05-22T17:27:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T21:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=15235"},"modified":"2012-05-22T17:27:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T21:27:34","slug":"obamas-war-on-coal-hits-your-electric-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2012\/05\/obamas-war-on-coal-hits-your-electric-bill.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s war on coal hits your electric bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Obama\u2019s War on Coal has already taken a remarkable toll on coal-fired power plants in America.<\/h1>\n<p>Last week the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported a shocking drop in power sector coal consumption in the first quarter of 2012. Coal-fired power plants are now generating just 36 percent of U.S. electricity, versus 44.6 percent just one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the result of an unprecedented regulatory assault on coal that will leave us all much poorer.<\/p>\n<p>Last week PJM Interconnection, the company that operates the electric grid for 13 states (Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia) held its 2015 capacity auction. These are the first real, market prices that take Obama\u2019s most recent anti-coal regulations into account, and they prove that he is keeping his 2008 campaign promise to make electricity prices \u201cnecessarily skyrocket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The market-clearing price for new 2015 capacity \u2013 almost all natural gas \u2013 was $136 per megawatt. That\u2019s eight times higher than the price for 2012, which was just $16 per megawatt. In the mid-Atlantic area covering New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and DC the new price is $167 per megawatt. For the northern Ohio territory served by FirstEnergy, the price is a shocking $357 per megawatt.<\/p>\n<p>Why the massive price increases? Andy Ott from PJM stated the obvious: \u201cCapacity prices were higher than last year&#8217;s because of retirements of existing coal-fired generation resulting largely from environmental regulations which go into effect in 2015.\u201d Northern Ohio is suffering from more forced coal-plant retirements than the rest of the region, hence the even higher price.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15236\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/05\/Train-car-filled-with-coal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15236\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/05\/Train-car-filled-with-coal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obama&#039;s Anti-Coal Policies are Costing Jobs and Increasing Energy Costs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These are not computer models or projections or estimates. These are the actual prices that electric distributors have agreed to pay for new capacity. The costs will be passed on to consumers at the retail level.<\/p>\n<p>House Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) aptly explained: \u201cThe PJM auction forecasts a dim future where Americans will be paying more to keep the lights on. We are seeing more and more coal plants fall victim to EPA\u2019s destructive regulatory agenda, and as a result, we are seeing more job losses and higher electricity prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that can stop this massive price hike now is an all-out effort to end Obama\u2019s War on Coal and repeal this destructive regulatory agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate will have a critical opportunity to do just that when it votes on stopping Obama\u2019s most expensive anti-coal regulation sometime in the next couple of weeks. The vote is on the Inhofe Resolution, S.J. Res 37, to overturn the so-called Utility MACT rule, which the EPA itself acknowledges is its most expensive rule ever.<\/p>\n<p>This vote is protected from filibuster, and it will take just 51 votes to send a clear message to Obama that his War on Coal must end.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Obama could veto the resolution and keep the rule intact, although that would force him to take full political responsibility for the massive impending jump in electricity prices.<\/p>\n<p>I have a form set up at <a href=\"http:\/\/action.americancommitment.org\/6675\/vote-yes-on-sj-res-37-to-stop-epas-war-on-coal\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.WarOnCoal.com<\/a> to make it easy to contact your senators on this crucial issue.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/archive\/author\/Phil-Kerpen\/index.html\" rel=\"author\">Phil Kerpen<\/a> &#8211; <em>Published May 22, 2012 &#8211; | FoxNews.com<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Phil Kerpen is president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americancommitment.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Commitment<\/a> and author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1936661322?linkCode=shr&amp;camp=213733&amp;creative=393181&amp;tag=philkercom-20\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDemocracy Denied.\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2012\/05\/22\/obamas-war-on-coal-hits-your-electric-bill\/print#ixzz1vdRPuWAa\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2012\/05\/22\/obamas-war-on-coal-hits-your-electric-bill\/print#ixzz1vdRPuWAa<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"1\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">~\u2020~<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Posted by Donna Calvin \u2014 Tuesday, May 22, 2012<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">~\u2020~<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please share this Watchwoman post on your Facebook page, Linkedin, Google+1, Twitter to all your friends, Please click \u201cLike\u201d, Share, and Leave Comments.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit Word Warriorette, a free Yahoo Group, and subscribe to be notified (one email a day) of new posts on Watchwoman.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/WordWarriorette\/\">http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/WordWarriorette\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">~\u2020~<\/p>\n<h6><em>DISCLAIMER: Beliefnet puts paid advertisements on \u201cWatchwoman on the Wall\u201d blog site including some that would never be approved of by the King James Bible, Pastor Ernie Sanders of Doers of the Word Church, What\u2019s Right-What\u2019s Left Radio Ministry, the Voice of the Christian Resistance, Geauga County Right to Life and Donna Calvin.\u00a0 We at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrwl.org\/\">www.WRWL.org<\/a> do not condone, endorse, adhere to, practice or believe in many of the topics and some of what other bloggers promote or their religions at Beliefnet.\u00a0 However, Mrs. Calvin has no control of what Beliefnet displays.\u00a0\u00a0 She blogs at Beliefnet because she is in the missionary field ministering to true believers posting articles and commentaries informing pro-life, conservative Christians of recent anti-Christian acts and hostile legislation to God\u2019s Agenda and His Will for the world.\u00a0 Hopefully, unbelievers will read these along with the salvation message of Jesus Christ as written in the Gospel of John, Chapter 3, according to the King James Bible, and be saved.\u00a0 A missionary must go into the unbelievers\u2019 territory to reach them.\u00a0 Her mission is to Proclaim Warning to a Nation that has forgotten their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the only Truth, the Life, and the only Way to the One God the Father.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=4928\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=4928<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n<p align=\"center\">~\u2020~<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama\u2019s War on Coal has already taken a remarkable toll on coal-fired power plants in America. 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