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NEW YORKERS FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY LAUNCHES ONLINE PETITION
New Yorkers for Affordable Energy (NYAE), the State’s leading advocacy coalition for common sense energy policy, is launching a statewide effort to gather support for its core principles. In order to engage voters, NYAE is proud to announce a statewide, online petition effort, aimed at educating the public and demonstrating the broad support that our efforts enjoy in every region. In just the last year, we have made tremendous strides. Our membership is growing. Last session we defeated the NYHEAT Act which would have substantially increased utility bills. Governor Hochul “paused” her misguided congestion pricing scheme in New York City, due to its cost, and even though it was reinstituted later, the toll was slashed by 40%. At her September energy summit the Governor showed support for nuclear energy as well as an “all-of-the-above” approach to meeting our energy needs.
NYAE’s guiding principles include:
- Support for an “all-of-the-above” approach to energy policy that includes renewables and nuclear as well as clean burning fossil fuels.
- Putting cost to the ratepayer at the top of the list whenever a new energy or environmental policy is considered.
- Prioritizing grid reliability by ensuring there is adequate energy supply available to generators and utilities during periods of peak demand in the summer and winter.
- A “look before we leap” approach when it comes to transitioning to electric vehicles, which relies on market forces and adequate infrastructure development and not feckless mandates that cannot be reasonably and economically achieved.
- Preserving the right of consumers to make their own energy choices in regard to how they heat their home, cook their food and the kind of car or truck they choose to drive.
Since cost is at the center of our values, it is extremely important that the public be informed about how much money the state’s rush to transition to renewable energy is going to cost them, and what the actual benefits are both environmentally and economically.
There have been studies done on this topic by private groups that have pegged the cost at between $280-$340 billion dollars, leading to perhaps a 64% increase in residents’ utility bills, however, our State government has ignored these estimates while all the while refusing to produce a study of their own.
When the State adopted the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) in 2019, it called for cost estimates to be provided and yet Governor Hochul and her allies in the State Legislature have REFUSED to abide by the terms of their own law.
Therefore, we call on Governor Hochul, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Speaker Carl Heastie to immediately act to pause CLCPA and immediately conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the mandates it has imposed already and those it is scheduled to enact in the future. Voters deserve to know what this massive state program will cost them and their families as well as the scope of any benefits. Failure to act and perform this analysis is political malpractice and it must not be allowed to happen.
Tell Governor Hochul you want lower bills.
Join the fight to end government energy mandates, preserve consumer choice and protect good paying jobs in New York!
