New Yorkers energy bills keep rising: Letters to the Editor Feb. 8, 2025

The Issue: Con Edison’s proposed rate hikes in the wake of the state’s green energy plan.Gov.Hochul’s green energy plan has New Yorkers seeing red (“Shocking,” Feb.

6).The governor is clueless when it comes to energy, and Con Ed has done a public service by holding up the mirror for all to see just what her politically motivated ambitions will cost us.The New York Power Authority has acquiesced to floating billions in bonds for a technically flawed and impractical energy source.The energy plan for New York state needs to be halted and replaced with a sound, cost-effective program, beginning with upgrading the transmission systems.James FoleyAirmontWhat do New York City residents expect? Gov.

Hochul and former Gov.Andrew Cuomo signed green, clean-air initiatives that are costing New Yorkers dearly.We complain about rising energy costs, yet we continue to vote for Democrats who push these green agendas.How does that saying go? We keep voting for the same candidates but expect a different outcome.Daniel KarasHuntingtonForcing consumers to pay for rising energy costs is disagreeable: On that point, I agree with The Post’s editors.But fossil-fuel companies knew about the dangers of their emissions as early as the 1950s.

They hid this knowledge with active misinformation campaigns to delay action and should be paying for the long-overdue grid upgrades.Gov.Hochul and the “insane” Democrats have already started that process with the bill that will make polluters pay.

This creates consequences for the truly insane: corporations that think they can continue to profit while creating an unlivable climate.Mary MemmottFramingham, Mass.It isn’t that state leaders are merely ignorant or a lack of any serious plan to upgrade the grid to meet their EV goals.It is their innate lack of serious critical thinking ability.Issuing royal fiats doesn’t get their Green New Deal done — it punishes, once again, those who can least afford it.

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