Posted on 08/11/2025 2:18:54 PM PDT by george76
When my friend Rebecca in Highland Park, NJ, opened her PSE&G gas and electric bill last month, she almost fell out of her seat: It had tripled.
It’s now costing her more than $1,000 a month to keep her modest home running.
“It’s been creeping up for months, in spite of the fact that nothing about our house has changed,” she told me. “In years past, it was averaging about $300 a month.”
“I don’t know how we’re expected to absorb these new bills,” she posted on Facebook.
Her neighbor Felix Urman wondered the same as he ticked off his household costs for me.
“Property taxes are up 6.3%,” he said — on top of what had already been the nation’s highest.
Car insurance up 15%. Home insurance up 17%. Health insurance up 19%.
...
Affordability and taxes, at 54% and 43% respectively, have become the defining issues in New Jersey’s tightening governor’s race.
The latest survey, released this week, showed Democratic Party nominee Mikie Sherrill leading Republican Jack Ciattarelli by just 6 percentage points.
Those who ranked affordability as their primary issue were split over which candidate is better equipped to handle it: 36% of them named Sherrill, while 34% chose Ciattarelli.
But on taxes, Ciattarelli holds a commanding lead. When asked which candidate would do a better job lowering them, 50% picked the Republican, compared to just 15% who went for the Democrat.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The Democrats have been slowly boiling the frogs...and it is getting very hot in the pot!
As far as I know, the Dems are still the ones who count the votes. So I don't expect any change.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard”.
H.L. Mencken
But trailing 12 months CPI is 2.7%
More DC Fed.gov BS.
“It’s now costing her more than $1,000 a month to keep her modest home running.”
Any NJ PSE&G customers here.
Looking at their rates, this doesn’t look right.
Why are electricity bills so high in NJ? I live in hot & humid Florida, have 2 A/C units running, and my monthly average bill is less than $50.
I guess I should shut up about my $190 power bill here in Florida......especially since it’s consistently in the mid 90s right now.
““It’s been creeping up for months, in spite of the fact that nothing about our house has changed,” she told me. “In years past, it was averaging about $300 a month.””
Rates didn’t triple ...
R-30 insulation and good, double pane windows pay for themselves.
I can’t wait for New Yorkers to have the same problem once everything is “Free”!
If the United States needs an enema, New Jersey is the place to administer it.
I have SECO. 3 bedroom/2 bath house, my bill went up from $106 to $120. But I am in the middle of a forest....
At least CA can (try to) defend the high cost of living by citing its natural beauty and climate.
To save the earth, energy costs must necessarily skyrocket.
This is the plan. Erase the middle class through taxation/inflation/rising prices.
Your betters will tell you that it is Climate Change causing the increase... and you will probably believe them and vote them in again.
the answer is simple: Gaia Worship.
Every single citizen of New jersey could vote for Ciatterelli,including Sherrill himself,and Sherrill would still win
You must keep your thermostat set at 82°
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