The Real Cost of Green Energy: An Honest Headline!

Somebody's come right out and said what every sensible person knows and what politicians try to whitewash: in government's tilting at the windmill of green energy, consumers are going to be losing a lot of green...backs. Surprise! OR NOT.  Still, I have to give credit to the headline for being honest.

The headline: "Japan seeks consumer burden to push renewable energy."



The blurb:

Japanese consumers will have to pay higher electricity bills under a government plan to help triple the generating capacity of renewable energy in the next decade and cut CO2 emissions.

Utility firms will be required to buy at a fixed rate electricity generated from renewable sources of energy -- mega solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and small hydro power -- from as early as 2012 ...

The cost will be passed on to consumers in a scheme called a "feed-in" tariff, which is already used in countries including Germany and Spain.

Get that? "The cost will be passed on to consumers."

So, yeah. Now whom do you think is going hit the hardest by these sorts of things? The poor and the middling classes, that's who.  You know, the entire bigger idea of green power bothers me to no end. Once more pie-eyed pampered idiots go haring off on their utopian dreams-and-schemes because they are elitists and they can afford it. Meanwhile, the rest of us -- and in a recession too! -- are just trying to get by. Are we going to feel the pinch if energy prices go up? What do you think? In a lot of ways, it all reminds me of this, of how other agitators want to deny GM food to poor nations because of an Ideal and without any thought that people are actually hungry in the real world. Ugh, go back to your Priuses and NPR broadcasts and premium organic fair trade soy milk lattes.