Use electricity much, love?

Get out that wallet again!
Sen. B. O. plans to bankrupt electric companies that use coal-generated electricity. Not my words…his.

“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.

That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.

The only thing I’ve said with respect to coal, I haven’t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.

It’s just that it will bankrupt them.”

See the rest of the transcript at Gateway Pundit. (With video).
Michelle has more, with comments.
Ace has his own uniquely tasteful take. (“Skyrocketing Electricity Costs Are My Plan, Bitch”).

While I was perusing the ever-erudite comments section on Ace’s post above, I came across a unique and timely piece by a commenter called HipsterCon. Sometimes bloggers save their best pieces for the comments sections of blogs other than their own. I thought this was worth a repeat here.

I have a left-wing friend who basically makes the same argument about energy prices that Obama made. He’s kind of like hopey changeness in that he’s an insular Manhattan-raised Ivy Leaguer and directs TV commercials, which means he works about 25% of the year and spends the rest of his days playing the pseudo-intellectual jackoff.

When I’d had enough I emailed to him, “instead of trying to completely fuck up our standard of living, economy and way of life why don’t you “enlightened” fascists put your money where your mouths are and dedicate your time and money to investing in the development of alternatives? You’re always telling me that all the smart people are liberals … the people of science. Well why don’t you match up all your brilliant scientists with all the fuckwits who waste all their time and money on buying power and influence in order to tell everyone else how to live and do something useful? Fund startups for left-wing Einsteins, and then when they show promise and go public you can all get rich. That’s how America works. Millions of people did not risk their lives crossing the Atlantic for free health care and to be told they’re morons for believing in God or anything else. They came for the chance to succeed or fail on their own terms. And hearing the prattle you spew is especially ridiculous coming from someone who has grown affluent by shooting TV commercials. If the free market is evil then you are Satan himself. Do you not get that? The cognitive disssonance is bewildering. So seriously, be a part of solving the problem or spare me your moral posturing.”

He responded that he’d never really thought about that. Then I think he went back to making a “no blood for oil sign.”

Yeah, I have a friend like that too. Fortunately, I am a tolerant individual.