Don "Quixote" Trump hates windmills. 

He claims they cause cancer, which anybody can tell you that's not true. But it's his story and he's going to stick with it. His crusade against clean energy is obviously idiotic and misinformed.

You may have noticed your energy bill slowly creeping upward in the last seven months - since Trump slithered into office. It's not your imagination.

The Trump regime began to do absolutely everything in its power to stop the clean energy trend and to replace it with old fashioned energy - gas, and coal from Day One. 

They've rescinded environmental regulations trying to control fossil fuel pollution, ending sun and wind projects on federal land, cancelled wind projects wherever they could, ended the Inflation Reduction Tax credits to clean energy construction and instead added subsidies for the coal industry.

As a result, electricity prices are starting to skyrocket.

A new independent report last week found that consumers will be paying an extra $3-$6 billion dollars a year for the privilege of keeping coal-fired power plants open past their expiration dates.

These coal-fired plants they're trying to keep open are not just the most expensive source of electric but among the least reliable. Environmental experts have been warning that coal is circling the drain for decades.

In fact, as NPR reported recently, electricity costs are now climbing twice as fast as inflation. The Department of Energy literally put out a tweet last month with a picture of a hunk of coal and the legend "She is the moment."

No, she's not.

Trump and minions are ignoring the fact that coal is 18th century technology, and gas is 19th-century technology, and now we're in the 21st century where people know how to intercept the rays of the sun and the breeze in the air and turn them into the cheapest electricity the world has ever seen.

Iowa has the lowest energy rates in the country - the average Iowan will spend 39% less on electricity that the average American.

Why?

Because it produces 57% of its electricity from the wind, the second biggest wind state in the country. Speaking of windmills, the reason Trump hates them is they've stopped his golf course ambitions in Scotland more than once over the years. So, it's personal. Throw that in with fossil fuel companies syphoning money to Trump for concessions and you have the answer to why he loves coal.

While campaigning last year Trump promised that under his administration energy and electricity will be sliced in half within 12 months, at a maximum 18 months. That's not happening. It's just the opposite.

As it Stands, the Democrats have an opportunity here to let the public know why they're paying more for their energy costs. The reason is because the simpleton in the White House doesn't give a shit about them.