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New York State Pushes Ahead On Natural Gas Ban
Forbes ^ | 5/8/23 | Daniel Rankind

Posted on 05/08/2023 6:01:49 PM PDT by DallasBiff

While announcing her Fiscal 2024 budget, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul announced that New York will soon be the first state to ban natural gas hookups in new construction.

The proposal, which has yet to be fully released, likely would not contain any “opt-outs” for local municipalities and would appear to be similar to a ban enacted by New York City in 2021.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: ban; defundthepolice; energy; ericadams; naturalgas; newyork; newyorkcity
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To: DallasBiff

A Citizens initiative to Amend the State constitution Banning the use of Taxpayer Funds to purchase any “fossil fuel” for the purpose of Cooking, Heating,Transportation, or Electricity generation, would go along way to help out.


21 posted on 05/08/2023 7:10:34 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: DallasBiff

It seems as if blue states like New York and California are bound and determined to completely ruin themselves. The rest of us need to be just as bound and determined that they will not take the rest of us with them.


22 posted on 05/08/2023 7:23:50 PM PDT by systemjim ( Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: Brasky

With tens of thousand of people that will likely leave NY suggests there won’t be much building going on. No doubt these losers will make a few places blue that are now red.


23 posted on 05/08/2023 7:27:30 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: DallasBiff

What about gas pipelines that goes through the state? Going to ban them?


24 posted on 05/08/2023 7:34:09 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: ridesthemiles

Of course not. The state is always right no matter how stupid the action.


25 posted on 05/08/2023 7:55:08 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Brasky

The electric grid doesn’t have much spare capacity nor is there enough generation capacity for this leftist fantasy to work, but no need to worry - rainbows, unicorn farts, and the electricity fairy will provide


26 posted on 05/08/2023 8:01:50 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Organic Panic

New Yorkers deserve every sh!tty thing their government does to them, because not only do they vote for the people who promulgate this insanity, but they don’t learn from their mistakes but rather double down on their stupidity.


27 posted on 05/08/2023 8:09:26 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: DallasBiff

Go ahead and ban it in existing buildings as well. If it is that dangerous to use for new buildings it makes no sense to keep it in the old buildings - order it fully phased out within 5 years. If it is a good idea, it is a good idea, right?


28 posted on 05/08/2023 8:20:08 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: DallasBiff

Remember this:

Buffalo, NY Christmas Blizzard 2022:
3 to 4 feet on snow, wind gusts up to 79 mph; sub-zero wind chills.

At it’s peak, over 58,000 people without power in the Buffalo area alone.

Pop Quiz: How did these people not freeze to death during this period?

ANS: It’s being banned in New York State.


29 posted on 05/08/2023 8:41:02 PM PDT by jimjohn (We're at war, people. Start acting like it.)
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To: DallasBiff

If this didn’t start an insurrection then nothing will.


30 posted on 05/08/2023 9:09:43 PM PDT by Revel
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To: DallasBiff

Years ago for a little while I lived in upstate New York, a little south of Cooperstown.

This was in the late 80’s and most people as I remember heated with not only wood but propane.

Houses had a connection for installing large propane tanks on the outside of their homes.

I’m talking propane tanks that were about five foot tall.

I’m sure the folks up there are going to love this.

But hey, most of them voted for this.


31 posted on 05/08/2023 9:12:39 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The end of “fossil” fuels is the end of civilization.

Hasn’t that been the plan all along?

32 posted on 05/08/2023 9:18:41 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: DallasBiff

New York... It’s almost like they were told to go screw themselves... and they said “OK!”


33 posted on 05/08/2023 9:38:05 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: DallasBiff

This looks like NY and California are the twin leading suicide states as far as hating/banning natural gas for cooking and heating go. Curiously enough, both states are losing population. Especially of smart white people. California is still the promised land for Chinese influx and influx of all other foreigners.

Both states have huge homelessness problems. Though in NY this is mostly in New York City. While in California, this is all over, due to the moderate year around weather. California specializes in homeless “camping out” in RVs and tents.

Portland, Oregon is the nation’s winner as far as homless living in tents. They just passed laws protecting their right to camp out anywhere. Such as your front and back lawns.


34 posted on 05/08/2023 9:51:49 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: DallasBiff
People who don't push back hard enough to stop the scumbags pushing this craziness deserve to "get it," good and hard. In a sane world, the whack jobs, perverts and thieves pushing the "climate catastrophe," and all the other sick nonsense flooding the West, would be penned up in some pseudo=academic backwater, disallowed from participating in civilized society and collecting a minimal stipend until they quietly croaked.

They are a vile, nihilistic lot and a massive threat to civilization. They should be treated as such. In a world where good men still stood up to tyranny and degeneracy, they would be.

35 posted on 05/09/2023 1:47:32 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Our very own are taking a knife to our necks, deliberately


36 posted on 05/09/2023 2:15:06 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: DallasBiff

The proposal also has exceptions.

For restaurants, hospitals, and critical infrastructure.

SNORT.


37 posted on 05/09/2023 3:08:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: from occupied ga

Did the nation vote for BiteMe?

What makes you think we voted for this?!


38 posted on 05/09/2023 3:09:53 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: DallasBiff

Get out of town!!!


39 posted on 05/09/2023 3:27:38 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ridesthemiles

Lack of heat? My entire house runs of electricity. I’m pretty comfortable in winter and summer. And granny will be fine with gas unless you build her a new home.


40 posted on 05/09/2023 3:59:35 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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