From the AP:
Gov’t to consumers: break on winter heating costs
WASHINGTON ? There’s good news for people who heat their homes with natural gas.
This winter’s heating bill should be about $105 less than last winter, the government said Tuesday. Households using fuel oil, electric heat or propane also will save money.
The Energy Information Administration said in its annual winter outlook Tuesday that lower fuel costs across the board and an expected milder winter will cut average heating costs for the upcoming season by 8 percent compared to last year ? to about $960. …
Now, it’s plenty evident that lower energy costs ? indeed, lower costs of any necessity ? are something families would regard as “good news.” And it may well be that to our government at present that lower energy costs are good news.
Under a cap-and-trade scheme, however, lower energy costs would be regarded by the government as a disaster. The entire scheme exists to make energy more expensive for families, the working poor, small business, everyone. That’s the only inferred way to “save the planet” ? and the newest definite way since the “stimulus” plot to pay off, among others, union buddies, electrical companies in on the scam, favored businesses, aspiring bureaucrats, and legislators and their particular friends who would be enriched by the hugely lucrative commodities market that the scheme would create.
