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Trenton NJ, Senators Steven Oroho and Anthony Bucco welcomed the Board of Public Utilities’ cost study of Governor Murphy’s Energy Master Plan but chastised the Administration for the unexplained two year delay.
Ratepayer cost estimates for the Energy Master Plan (EMP) were scheduled to be released by the end of 2019. After a two year delay, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) finally held its initial hearing today, March 25, 2022.
“Recognizing the impracticality of the governor’s proposed Energy Master Plan since it was first announced, I have been calling on the Administration to formally investigate and quantify its real cost to New Jersey families and businesses. Although I am pleased the BPU is finally looking into this, I’m astounded that it took more than two years to do so,” said Oroho (R-24). “Anyone who has actually studied this plan with rational thought knows it is not a feasible plan at all; it is an environmental manifest as unworkable as national Democrats’ ‘Green New Deal.’ Every realistic analysis concludes it will create more problems than solutions, more questions than answers, and more burdensome costs than benefits.”
Oroho has been calling on the Murphy Administration to reveal the true cost of the proposed EMP for years, most recently in an editorial published by NorthJersey.com in which he called the Governor’s plan “costly foolishness.”
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“It is outrageous that it has taken more than two years to conduct something as simple as a cost study. This research and analysis should have been completed and released to the public in December 2019,” added Bucco (R-25). “Nevertheless, this study will reveal what I have been saying all along—Murphy’s plan is nothing more than a huge energy tax that will impoverish low- and middle-class families. Energy bills are already high—with hundreds of thousands of residents behind on their utility bills. Now is not the time to be increasing costs on New Jerseyans.”
Bucco authored an op-ed published by The Record only days after the EMP was released in which he called for an official cost estimate and said, “NJBPU President Joe Fiordaliso may have already let the cat out of the bag when he stated back in April (2019) that the plan is ‘expensive, and we know it is expensive.’”
Oroho and Bucco have both highlighted the plan’s goal to eliminate natural gas use in New Jersey and require mass electric upgrades in homes, even though natural gas heats roughly 80% of homes and creates half of the state’s electricity.
“The EMP will require New Jersey homeowners to convert the heat in their homes to electric, which could cost New Jersey families $20,000 or more. New Jersey is already known for its high cost of living and excessive taxes and there is no way that residents can afford an additional financial burden of such magnitude,” said Oroho. “To be successful, the transition away from carbon fuels to more sustainable alternatives should match the situation on the ground. Consumers and businesses are open to utilizing renewable energy sources, but it should happen incrementally, driven by better and more affordable technology and the natural progression of the marketplace—not foisted on New Jerseyans by the Murphy Administration.”
“I don’t think anyone is against New Jersey utilizing renewable energy sources,” added Bucco. “The problem is that the Governor wants to mandate an aggressive energy plan that gives little consideration to the crushing costs upon seniors, low income families and the middle class, leaving fewer dollars for retirement, a needed car repair, or college savings for their kids. The Governor’s plan even risks higher property tax bills as schools and other taxpayer-owned facilities must retrofit with costly, electric heating equipment. The NJDEP has already acknowledged that the conversion could cost 4 to 5 times more than it currently costs. That is outrageous.”
Murphy is an a -hole!
Murphy is a low IQ idiot. His electric and windmill energy plan for NJ is totally unrealistic.
1. Electric is “secondary energy” meaning it cannot be produced on it’s own. It must be produced by “primary energy”. Primary energy sources in the USA to create electric are coal 33 percent, natural gas 35 percent and nuclear 20 percent and windmills and solar account for less than 8 percent of the primary energy needed to produce electric.
Nuclear energy is zero-emissions clean, natural gas is second cleanest and coal is debabatable depending on the extraction method.
2. The USA will NEVER be net-zero- emissions. There is no way windmills will ever replace the 68 percent of electric energy created by natural gas and coal.
3. There are 450,000 miles of overhead electric lines (strung on wooden poles) in the USA that took 121 years to do (1899 to 2020). It would take another hundred years to erect and string 500,000 more miles of overhead electric lines (to feed electric only into every city, town, suburb, etc) and the skies above your head would be a jumbled mess of wooden poles and electrical lines (vulnerable to outages and blsck outs during storm seasons).
Additionally, the USA power grid took decades to get where it is and it’s being stressed now with the current demand for electricity. It simply cannot handle excessive electric use.
A completely electric society is NOT the answer because it’s not feasible or realistic in any way. We will always rely on nuclear, natural gas and coal to produce electric to a large extent and that’s just the way it is.
Oh, please, keep your opinions to yourselves.
You are only TAXPAYERS.
Your job is to PAY and SHUT UP.
Oh, so put up your virtue signalling lawn sign and vote for the candidate who will stick it to you because you are SO SMART and live in Richwood.
Murphy is clearly ignorant.
Electric is “secondary energy” meaning it cannot be produced on it’s own. Electric requires “primary energy” sources which are then converted to produce electric. The “primary sources” in the USA to produce electric are nuclear 20 percent, natural gas 35 percent, coal 33 percent. Windmills and solar less than 8 percent.
There is NO WAY the USA will ever be net-zero-emissions. It’s impossible. Windmills and solar will never be able to produce the 92 percent of primary energy by nuclear, natural gas and coal.
We have 98 years of untapped natural gas in the USA and extraction methods have become cleaner than ever before. We also have 264 years of coal in the USA and cleaner methods of mining are constantly being developed. We cannot do without these to produce electric.
Additionally, there are 450,000 MILES of overhead electric lines strung on wooden poles across the USA that took 124 years to get to where it is today. An “all electric” USA (which will never happen) would require an additional minimum of 500,000 more MILES of overhead electric lines strung on wooden poles creating a jumbled mess of overhead wires to reach every home and business in every state. Overhead wires are vulnerable to damage during storm seasons creating outages and blackouts. No sane person would vote for this.
Therefore, Murphy’s electric society is as stupid and foolish as Biden’s electric society. Vote these ignorant creeps out of office.
how about a $1000 check so we can pay for the massive gas prices.
even the libtard governor in ca is sending checks
The ftard who voted thumbs down must be some government do-nothing-ass-kissing-democrat feeding at the public trough with a taxpayer funded car and gas