Voters Aren’t Thankful for Higher Energy Costs

To judge from the tone of the left-leaning opinion journals breathlessly promoting a report indicating that residential electricity costs will increase by an average of 8 percent over the coming summer, they believe this is a good problem for Democrats to have.

The analysis produced by the National Energy Assistance Directors Association and the Center for Energy Poverty and Climate determined that it will cost $719 to cool the average American home this summer, an increase of $58 from just last year. The situation is worse for Americans on the coasts, where electricity prices could spike up to 12 percent from one year ago.