Ulterior motive ascribed to the EPA

Does a clear power plan sound like a good idea? Not if you represent a state that enjoys relatively low power rates and is ill-equipped to convert coal and oil-fired burners to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. South Carolina State Representative Bill Sandifer is also suspicious of why the federal Environmental Protection Agency is pushing its clean power plan. He told an Oconee Chamber of Commerce committee today that he believes EPA is trying to equalize the cost of power in the South with the higher rates charged in the North. And the lower rates are an advantage that Sandifer and other lawmakers in the region want to protect. Sandifer’s comments today came the same week in which fellow Republican, U-S Senator Mitch McConnell, complained that EPA has created a depression in his state, Kentucky.