Dear Editor:
Long Island’s energy needs have been mismanaged going all the way back to the Shoreham nuclear plant—which we’re still paying for. Does Gov. Hochul really think our electric bills will go down by eliminating fossil fuels, or does she simply lack the courage to stand up to the radical wing of her party that’s pushing this?
No one wants huge solar farms taking over our green spaces, and the windmill projects are collapsing under their own weight. Sunrise Wind is turning into a financial debacle on par with Shoreham, as its developer, Ørsted, recently had to issue more than $9 billion in stock to keep the project alive. Who do you think is going to pay back the investors? If you said the beleaguered ratepayers of Long Island, congratulations—you’ve won a spot in the Ratepayer Hunger Games. Good luck.
With the Trump Administration balking at giving the Danish company federal tax subsidies, you just know the governor is going to bail them out to keep her green-energy dream alive. Don’t do it, Kathy! Adding higher state taxes to our already unaffordable electric bills will be the last straw for the people of Long Island.
For politicians who claim to care about affordability, their support of the green-new scam is hypocrisy at its worst. I don’t want an electric car, I don’t want them to take away my gas grill, and I certainly don’t want them to raise my rates to support it.—Desiree Glock, Centereach