You know, just last year, when Democrats complained about high energy prices and their harmful effect on the American people. Well now that they are in power, we’ve got some who are out to make sure that we pay more for the energy we use – for our own good, of course.

Government policy should be crafted to raise the price of carbon-emitting energy sources so consumers are compelled to choose alternative energy, House Democratic Conference Chairman John Larson (D-Conn.) told CNSNews.com on Thursday. Larson agreed that such a policy would likely result in higher electricity prices for consumers but said this is needed to protect the environment from the possible “catastrophic results” of not implementing a pro-green energy policy.

This would no doubt happen through increased taxes (more money for the government – an essential good for the Democrats) in order to make sure we use green technologies that are too expensive to compete (competition bad, comrades) to combat man-made global warming (which the science now shows isn’t happening). But remember – we can afford these higher energy prices in the midst of a recession. After all, the Democrats say so.