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Democrats Are Behind Your Crippling Electricity Bills, Report Confirms

State policies are a monumental factor in electricity costs, and Democrat-led states have driven prices upward through pushing aggressive mandates and choking reliable power supply, according to a new report by the Institute for Energy Research (IER).

The new report, first provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation, found that blue states generally have higher electricity costs than red states. Titled “Blue States, High Rates. Electricity Prices: Elections Have Consequences,” IER’s report notes that all but one of the top 10 most expensive states for energy — measured by cost per kilowatt hour — are governed by Democrats.

In contrast, 80% of the states with the most affordable electricity costs per kilowatt hour are “reliably red,” according to IER. Twenty of the 25 states with the lowest electricity prices are red states, while only four are blue, and one is purple, the report states.

Always on Energy Research partnered with IER on the report.

“This is a blue state problem,” IER President Tom Pyle told the DCNF, arguing that prescribing any blame to President Donald Trump for soaring electricity costs is misplaced. “[America needs to] put an emphasis on providing dispatchable electricity generation, namely by keeping coal plants open, even building new coal plants, nuclear and particularly natural gas. I think the administration is doing everything they can in spite of what the blue states have been doing over the years. Other words, Trump’s trying to save them from themselves.”

IER drew data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) as well as the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to compare state electricity prices and evaluate how policy decisions might have influenced costs. Several states, which are generally Democrat-led, have set strict “ideological mandates,” according to IER, to phase out coal and rig their power grids to reflect specific emissions goals.

“More than almost any other product, electricity prices are a direct result of state energy policies because states have the exclusive power to decide which resources supply their grids,” the report states. “Electricity prices are especially high in traditionally liberal areas of the country. In total, 86% of states with electricity prices above the national average in the continental U.S. are reliably blue, having voted for the Democratic nominee for president in the 2020 and 2024 elections.”

IER notes that the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs report confirmed that “each of the top five most expensive states for electricity have mandates requiring 100% of their power to come from renewable or carbon-free sources, making their electricity unnecessarily more expensive.”

The report points to these emissions goals, the premature retirement of coal and nuclear plants, natural gas restrictions and other mandates like net metering requirements as price-inflating factors.

Affordability has become a major Democrat talking point and appeared to be a winning message in the November New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections. As Democrats continue to hammer the affordability angle, IER notes in the report that Democrat-led states are devastating for affordability when it comes to energy policy.

“Americans pay dramatically different electric bills depending on which party controls their state capitol. High electricity prices are not an inevitability; they are a choice,” the report states. “And in state after state, they are a choice made by left-wing policymakers who have prioritized climate symbolism over working families’ budgets.”

Read the full report, if you wish. But in the meantime, on the broader topic of “affordability” …

CNBC Admits That Biden Owns the Affordability Crisis: ‘Full Stop.’

During a Wednesday morning Squawk Box segment, host Joe Kernen was unambiguous about who's to blame for sky-high prices.

"The affordability issue is from the 22% increase in prices and inflation under Biden, there's just — full stop, right there. That's the affordability issue — and you gotta be able to explain that," Kernen said.

Former SEC Chair Jay Clayton, appearing alongside him, didn't hesitate to agree. "That's right," Clayton replied, making it clear the roots of today's economic pain run straight back to Biden's time in office.

Clayton went further, noting that Trump and his economic team, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the helm, fully grasp the magnitude of the problem they inherited.

“And look, I think that with the economic team, President Trump and the economic team led by Scott Bessent, you have people who very much understand this. And it was a… they were thrown, what I would say, the worst economy for the average American in my adult lifetime, in terms of like you said, the incredible increase in prices at the household,” he said.

Murphy isn’t the only Democrat pretending he’s never heard of Joseph Biden, of course — deliberate amnesia is the Democrats’ playbook; in fact, it’s the only page they have. See if you can remember who was president during the period their chart shows below — they’re counting on you having forgotten: