Wall Street Journal - How NJ Dems caused power prices to soar thru "green energy" | Eastern NC Now

The Wall Street Journal is pointing out that electric rates are on the ballot in this November's election for New Jersey Governor.  The policies over the last eight years of outgoing Democrat Governor Phil Murphy have caused New Jersey power prices for consumers to soar well above the national average and they are headed even higher.

When Murphy took office, the electric rate picture was much more promising for New Jersey.  New gas fired plants, taking advantage of abundant shale gas in neighboring Pennsylvania gave the state a good supply of cheap electric power. Murphy threw all of that away in chasing the climate alarmist "green energy" rainbow.  He shut down New Jersey's coal fired power plants and reduced its gas fired plants to try to shift to expensive and unreliable wind and solar.  That is when New Jersey electric ratepayers started seeing their power bills rise dramatically.

Republicans are rising in the polls in New Jersey and want to drive a stake through the heart of Murphy's insane green energy monster.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-phil-murphy-caused-new-jersey-electricity-prices-to-soar-18c9e6ce?st=KAyvuc

It's not just New Jersey.  Maryland Democrats have trashed their electric grid the same way with wind and solar, leading to chronic instability and high prices for consumers.

https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/prepare-now-substation-failure-puts-baltimore-risk-widespread-blackouts

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/maryland-governor-wes-moore-polling-data-plummets-amid-power-bill-hyperinflation

Sadly, a combination of RNOs and liberal Democrats have set North Carolina on the very same disastrous wind and solar pathway with HB951.  Liberal Senate boss Phil Berger and former RINO House Speaker Tim Moore got behind liberal Democrat Governor Roy Cooper's number one policy goal of pushing wind and solar power in North Carolina, in alignment with NC's "woke" electric monopoly Duke Energy.