Energy reform = electricity rates

I found this flashback clip particularly amusing. Here the then presidential candidate was candid and honest about his position on energy reform. Carbon is now evil, and its emissions must be reduced. The best way of achieving this is to make it costly to emit carbon.

Thus taxing carbon emission is the most honest way of going about reducing carbon emissions if one truly contends that carbon is the culprit of climate change.

Yet the 1,200 page cap and trade bill that passed the house (and will hopefully be doomed in the Senate) makes consideration to NOT raise electricity rates. So it effectively does NOTHING in the goal it sets out to do, that is reduce carbon emissions.

If per chance this does pass the senate and lands on the President's desk, we'll see how much integrity he has on this issue and if he vetoes it.

That really would be change.