Another highlight of Barack Obama’s comments to the Wall Street Journal:

WSJ: With the cap-and-trade system, the estimates are as much as $100 billion a year of income coming in, and you’re proposing to spend $15 billion of it. Is that right? Sen. Obama: I think that’s right. $100 billion is conservative, but I think $15 billion is about what we can wisely spend on R&D and some of the other proposals that I put out here. And we’re going to have to rebate a whole bunch of that money to consumers to accommodate what will undoubtedly be efforts by these [inaudible] industries to pass on the cost of retrofitting the plant or changing processes to consumers. Consumers, potentially, and I’ve said this publicly, will see a spike short-term in, for example, electricity prices …

Does anyone else hear the theme to Jaws right now?

Okay, so I’m particularly “bitter” about the thought of a spike in electricity prices right now. My home has been without electricity since 7 p.m. last night, after the storm passed through…