Those that support alternative energy are condemning the poor to a life of suffering. From Breitbart:
Light, water and heat are a luxury for millions in Spain
Pedro and Mohamed await every utility bill with much angst.
To reduce the money they have to pay, they live in the dark, without heating, or shower just once a week — victims like millions in Spain of energy poverty.
Welfare associations have for years warned against this situation, but the death earlier this month of 81-year-old Rosa in a fire caused by a candle she used for light has brought the issue firmly to the fore.
Socialist lawmaker Pilar Lucio asked the ruling conservative government to immediately implement a “winter truce” on companies cutting power to those who cannot pay — a measure with majority support in parliament and encouraged in a 2009 EU directive.
Last year, according to Spain’s National Statistics Institute, 10.6 percent of Spaniards were unable to properly heat their homes — or more than four million people — compared to just 5.9 percent in 2008, when an economic crisis kicked off.
The utility prices:
At fault are the economic crisis and widespread loss of jobs it caused, as well as a 30- to 50-percent rise in utility prices since 2006.
Directly caused by Spain's closing fully functional coal burning plants and replacing them with much more expensive solar and wind plants. Remember Obama's crack about how electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket?
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