Slate magazine article suggests that skyrocketing electricity prices are just a random "detail"

Slate runs the numbers on one of the climate skeptics' favorite arguments. - By Michael A. Levi and Trevor Houser - Slate Magazine

Energy security is notoriously difficult to define and thus serves as the perfect weapon for attacking legislation: Just pick a bill, find a random but scary-looking detail (higher electricity prices!), and then claim that it will put the homeland in danger.

Flashback: YouTube - Obama: My Plan Makes Electricity Rates Skyrocket

Barack Obama: "Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." (January 2008)