Re: Sept. 17 guest commentary.
Pete Maysmith must subscribe to the broken-windows theory of economics, which suggests we can help the economy by breaking a window and putting a glazier to work.
A retired member of Colorado’s air quality board computed a 17 percent cost increase in our power bills for every 10 percent decrease in carbon pollution. That works out to a 59.5 percent increase in our power costs for Gov. John Hickenlooper’s proposed 35 percent carbon reduction.
Who do you think will get hurt the most by that increase? Not the execs at Xcel, but the poor certainly cannot afford it. Their budgets would be crushed.
Maysmith should just go ahead and break everyone’s windows. That would really spur the economy, wouldn’t it?
Terry W. Donze, Wheat Ridge
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