Edward Markey actually said...

The Republicans are so committed to the idea that modernization equals higher energy costs that they wrote it directly into the title of tod...

socialist power systems, and restrictions to free competition, of all the things to a socialist in America, this is at the top of the list, ...

The Chu memo is about competition. It is about free and fair open markets.

Better planning, wider coordination, and using the best technologies are ways of ultimately reducing costs to consumers.