Frack, Kathy, frack or New York will continue to be held over an energy barrel by Canada
New York wouldn’t have to worry so much about the risk to its energy imports from a possible US-Canada trade war if Gov. Kathy Hochul had embraced fracking for natural gas, rather than declaring war on carbon-based fuels.
Monthly gas bills in New York City are roughly 15% higher than in Philadelphia thanks to the contrast in state policies.
Pennsylvania embraced hydraulic fracking for shale gas two decades ago; New York shunned it.
Perhaps worse, the Hochul-Cuomo “Climate Action Plan” is sending utility bills soaring with hidden surcharges to fund windmill construction and other wildly costly flights of fantasy.
And pushes us all to switch to electric stoves, heat, cars and so on — without actually increasing the local supply of electricity.
Natural gas provides more than 70% of home heating statewide; gas generates 63% of Con Ed’s electricity.
Sure would be nice if we were harvesting the state’s huge supplies of natural gas, rather than importing the fuel (and electricity) from our neighbors.
Heck, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 2023 recommended that New York and other Northeastern states bolster their gas-energy infrastructure; Hochul ignored it.
All these green gestures don’t actually put a dent in climate change, but only burden and endanger working New Yorkers.
Ditch the lunatic energy policies, governor: Frack, Kathy, frack.
