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Posted on 09/20/2025 8:43:24 AM PDT by massmike
Every month, the electric bill arrives, and it’s larger than the month before. The region pays more for electricity than almost anyone else in America—higher than the national average and, outside of Alaska and Hawaii, higher than anywhere else in the country. This is not a coincidence. It is the inevitable result of politicians who pushed the risky and unreliable green agenda while forcing reliable power plants off the grid.
The forced closure of coal, oil, and natural gas plants in the name of “climate progress” is why rates are climbing. In 2022, Massachusetts Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey traveled to Somerset to celebrate the shutdown of traditional energy plants. They smiled for the cameras, congratulated themselves on a “victory,” and then went back to Washington while families were left to pay the tab.
First came the celebration, but now we see the deflection. Four Democratic senators, including Warren and Markey, recently wrote a letter to the Trump administration suddenly pretending to care about rising electricity bills. It is political theater and nothing more. They didn’t care when they cheered the closures in 2022, and they don’t care now. New England’s families are stuck with the consequences of the green agenda they applauded; they just want to escape the blame.
Let’s be clear: This cascade of closures started when Joe Biden was vice president and accelerated under his presidency. Nearly 400 fossil fuel plants have been shuttered across the country since 2010, including almost 300 coal plants. In the Northeast alone, names like Indian Point in New York, Eagle Point in New Jersey, Schiller Station in New Hampshire, and Canal Station in Massachusetts have been crossed off the map. Each closure meant fewer megawatts of reliable power and higher bills for families.
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I’m all for good stewardship of God’s creation, but the green energy movement seems to attract con artists like no tomorrow.
I don’t what is happening to the once beautiful countryside. Luscious farmland is now growing these huge metal and glass monstrosities. What kind of mess will harvesting those things make? Or will they just be left to wither?
The Green Agenda only destroys the Green plants
Higher than Commiefornia?
In the 2010s NY Liberals, Andrew Cuomo and the NGO Riverkeeper (headed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr) lobbied to shut down NY’s Indian Point nuclear plant.
Indian Point supplied 2 GW, or about 1/3 of NY City’s baseload power. It was built in the 1960s, never had any accidents, was fully depreciated, and supplied power for about 2.8 cents per KWH! (NY City residential power bills are about 31 cents/KWH)
It finally closed in April 2021, just a few months before sex-pest Governor Andrew Cuomo was deposed by fellow leftists in New York
“....while families were left to pay the tab....”
The same dumshits who keep electing their tormenters.
The cascade of medicare costs started in 2022 too. Look at us now.
I sometimes feel bad for the middle class in those insane liberal democommie states. The poor always vote for the democrats to get free stuff so they don’t care that their energy costs are high. Some chump taxpayers covers their bills. The rich don’t care because the cost of energy doesn’t matter to them and vote for democrats to assuage their guilt for being wealthy. The middle class. They get to pay for it all. To paraphrase WIllie Sutton, “That’s where the money is.”
Green energy is all about that extra green you have to spend in order to get it.
Keep voting Democrat. FAFO. The residents of the Northeast are now finding out.
I expect sooner or later an extended arctic blast will overwhelm the windmills and solar farms and leave residents of large areas of the country freezing in the dark, EVs stranded and even essential services like water and sewer unavailable for long periods of time. It happened in Texas several years ago and will happen again.
That’s where the government money has been easiest to harvest. Take that away and the whole fiasco collapses like a house of cards,
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