High energy prices are fueling a backlash to climate alarmist policies | Eastern North Carolina Now

Climate alarmist policies have caused energy prices to skyrocket, and consumers are fuming.  This is producing a backlash against the so-called "green" agenda and the "net zero CO2" movement.  For many the "green" part of the equation is all the "green" coming out of their pockets to pay for this ideological crusade.

In liberal states that have pushed hardest, many consumers find themselves paying twice what they should for energy.  Exchanging electric heat for their previous gas heat, for example, is proving a bad bargain for homeowners.  Meanwhile, electric rates themselves have skyrocketed due to increased dependence on expensive and unreliable wind and solar power.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/28/backlash-green-agenda-fueled-high-energy-costs/

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/03/03/the-resistance-to-climate-alarmism-grows/

https://freebeacon.com/energy/delawares-sky-high-electric-prices-are-just-the-beginning-as-state-pushes-green-mandates/

https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/2021233/Rising-energy-bills-expose-hidden-costs-of-the-renewable-revolution

This same consumer response is also showing up in other countries.  Thanks to Merkel's Energy Transition to wind and solar, Germany has the highest electric rates in the world.  In the last election, over 60% of German voters gave their votes to parties which advocated using more traditional power sources instead of wind and solar.

The biggest pushback, however occured in the last provincial election in Ontario, where the Conservative Party focused its campaign on shutting down the Liberals climate fantasy energy policies, and won by the biggest landslide in Canadian history, flipping a 2 to 1 LIberal over Conservative majority to a 10 to 1 Conservative over Liberal majority.  The new Conservative provincial government started by cancelling every wind and solar project then in the pipeline and followed by repealing the Green Energy Act entirely.

Here in North Carolina, we face this same threat due to liberal RINO state senate boss Phil Berger ramming through Roy Cooper far left NC Green New Deal, which is even more radical than Europe's much criticized Green Deal which their farmers call "Climate Communism".

https://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/48970/ncs-green-new-deal-the-anatomy-of-a-betrayal.html