Act now or forever pay higher rates?

The EPA's Clean Air Mercury Rule is scheduled to go into effect in 2010, and if we don't lower mercury emissions now, will its cap-and-trade rules forever doom us to higher rates? Will we be paying more to make our city dirtier? To see how JEA's past actions have brought us higher rates today, read "Rate hike will flip switch on JEA's debt: You'll pay more than $7,800, 60 percent more than similar companies to help reduce it" a recent article in the Florida Times-Union that details JEA's past heavy reliance on debt, and how that has lead to recent rate hikes. So, the question remains, what will JEA's current reliance on dirty, mercury-spewing power lead to in the future? As Napoleon has said, "Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the latter than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never." Let's get to work now lowering these mercury emissions, before the EPA's new rules hit us with an even bigger bill.