Yes I think the entire energy industry considers Climate Change to be a bummer, because while it is largely based on flimsy speculation and loosely linked data, the whole Climate Change thing is pressing down hard on power plants, oil refineries and the manufacturing industry in general, among many other realms.
Lots of people love to campaign with the whole ‘save our planet’ thing and rallying behind Global Warming (oh wait we don’t call it that anymore since that was mostly exposed as crap and inaptly named), ahem, I mean “Climate Change”. But when they start having to sell kidneys just to pay an electric bill, the tune will change.
Electricity customers won’t be the only ones bearing the financial burden, it’ll just be trickle down from where it really makes a wallop – the energy industry enterprises. They will suffer great losses, impacting the economy tremendously along the way, jobs will be lost, commodities and energy futures will become turbulent and the EPA will be scrambling around. Speaking of which, they are leaning on their back foot right now with this whole aggressive regulations thing they’re doing. But we’ll see what the Supreme Court says about the whole thing.
I’m guessing that’s enough to get the green party riled up, but that’s my two cents.