Posted on 03/30/2026 4:33:49 PM PDT by Libloather
They’re running up the bill.
Bronx residents in state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s district decried spiking utility bills Monday — as the state Legislature pushes back on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s cost-saving bid to delay New York’s controversial climate law mandates.
The complaints come as lawmakers, led by Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, are poised to split with Hochul over her push to delay the climate law, as well as to reform car insurance — two major sticking points in state budget talks.
“Anything that you pay less is better for everybody,” said Francisco Perez, 36, a Baychester resident visiting Heastie’s constituent office.
Perez groused that his utility bills have caused a financial strain as they shot up to $160 a month. He supports scrapping the climate law’s mandates if it’d lower his bills.
As Hochul mounts a re-election bid this year, she’s pushing her proposed climate law delay and car-insurance reform as voter-friendly “affordability” measures.
The meat of Hochul’s car-insurance proposal aims to cut New York’s sky-high $4,000 yearly premiums by changing the state’s squishy “serious injury” threshold — part of the state’s broader rules that allow people to collect big bucks for vaguely defined “pain and suffering.”
The proposal also calls to cap damages for pain and suffering claimed by drivers who are at-fault, uninsured or committing a felony as crashes occurred. And it proposes allowing prosecutors seek criminal penalties against any person responsible for staging crashes — a bid to crackdown on fraud.
But the marquee hangup appears to be the climate law delay.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Dear FRiends,
We need your continuing support to keep FR funded. Your donations are our sole source of funding. No sugar daddies, no advertisers, no paid memberships, no commercial sales, no gimmicks, no tax subsidies. No spam, no pop-ups, no ad trackers.
If you enjoy using FR and agree it's a worthwhile endeavor, please consider making a contribution today:
Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you,
Jim
She finally released that plan March 20, calling to push the climate deadlines to 2040. Doing so would delay mandates that could see New Yorkers paying up to $4,000 a year for natural gas and oil households, as well as $2.23 more per gallon at the gas pump, she argued.
Climate law - commies just makin' it up as they go along.
She’s crazy...along with the legislature...and all the other Dem politicians...and SHEEP....
Could you please remind me of the day the world ends? And was this AOC’s prediction? Or if not, whose was it?
[[Perez groused that his utility bills have caused a financial strain as they shot up to $160 a month.]]
Huh? Was just talking with someone who said their electric bill alone was over $500 for the month-
They voted for it
The socialist bartender could’ve been hopped up on the ketamine. Gird something just to be safe. There is nowhere to hide.
1/22/19 Ocasio-Cortez: ‘World will end in 12 years’ if climate change not addressed
But the 15 minute city and public mass transit would solve the car insurance problem.
Thanks!
NY should be part of Canada along with their neighboring states.
AOC silent on whether she will amend doomsday climate prediction as deadline looms
But, PLEASE all millionaires, who bolted, move back to pay for this!!!!
Idk about the car insurance fiasco, but the Climate Act has real teeth and a certain deadline is coming due. If Hochul cannot get legislature to write a delay into the law, New Yorkers will definitely be seeing Obama’s dream, electricity bills skyrocketing.
Washington state already has the highest gas tax in the US, thanks to Reichsfuhrer Inslee and his Climate Pledge just k.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.