The Poor Will Be the First to Pay for This Green Folly

Posted on Tue 08/10/2010 by PA Pundits - International

Andrew Bolt By Andrew Bolt

Expect more bills for less power as authoritarian green rules strangle the cheapest supply of electricity we have:

VICTORIANS hit with soaring electricity bills could have their power rationed under a smart meter plan.

Some companies want to “choke” or restrict amounts delivered to homes to help families cope with costs.

Victorians’ electricity bills have surged in the past two years, racing ahead of inflation.

New meters that are being rolled out to every household and small business can ration power to control debt for individual customers.

UPDATE

A glimpse of our future:

California is in danger of becoming, as historian Kevin Starr has warned, a “failed state.”

What went so wrong? The answer lies in a change in the nature of progressive politics in California. During the second half of the twentieth century, the state shifted from an older progressivism, which emphasized infrastructure investment and business growth, to a newer version, which views the private sector much the way the Huns viewed a city—as something to be sacked and plundered. The result is two separate California realities: a lucrative one for the wealthy and for government workers, who are largely insulated from economic decline; and a grim one for the private-sector middle and working classes, who are fleeing the state.

Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
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