"When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, you know, under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers."

And yet, in the absence of these plants, we will forever import inefficiently generated electricity over a thousand miles of prairie at a ridiculous premium just because Jennifer Granholm said we don't need the local power and because Barack Obama feels a need for electricity prices to skyrocket.