There are estimates that it will drive energy costs up to $0.30 per kilowatthour. Currently, we pay around $0.10 kilowathour (depending on where you live). This means that the price of electricity for the average person may triple. I pay about $100 a month in the summer and $300 a month in the winter. I can not afford $300 and $900 a month. And this does not even consider the cost of goods that will increase as production costs go up. It might not impact energy prices as drastically as is being estimated, but we are talking much more than "pennies" out of the pocket of the middle class.