by Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Mag:
New York chooses not to have $7 gallon gas.
In 2019, Al Gore joined then Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill into law imposing 40% in ‘emissions cuts’ on New York State by 2030. Cuomo bragged that the draconian measures would represent “the most aggressive climate law in” America and sneered at the president that, “to deny climate change is to deny reality. Trump ignores climate change because it is not politically convenient to acknowledge it.” But it was actually Cuomo who was denying reality.
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Back then, Cuomo thought he was going to be president. Seven years later, his political career is over and his former second, Gov. Kathy Hochul is getting rid of the 2030 target because it would wipe out New York’s economy while trying to blame the whole thing on President Trump.
Referring to the law that Gore had called the “most well-crafted [environmental] legislation in the country” that “will set a new bar”, Hochul, who sits on the executive committee of the U.S. Climate Alliance, faced economic reality and called the 2030 goal “costly and unattainable” .
Gov. Hochul argued that “we cannot meet the Climate Act’s 2030 targets without imposing new and additional crushing costs on New York businesses and residents” that would amount to “more than $4,000 a year for upstate oil and natural gas households, and $2,300 more for New York City natural gas households. And gas prices at the pump would jump an additional $2.23 per gallon” and would instead pursue a 2040 target and then perhaps eventually a 2050 one.
Hochul decided that having $7 gallon gas would not especially help her reelection campaign.
New York was the first high profile state to push back the unrealistic target dates that had been imposed by careerist politicians hoping to run against Trump without any regard to the long term consequences. The environmentalist left desperately fought against Hochul because of its own green domino theory: if New York ‘falls’, then what happens in New Jersey and California?
Now the dominoes are about to start falling.
Last year, California pushed back its regulations to 2026. This year, even California Dems are facing the political reality that if they push any harder, more refineries will close and gas prices will shoot up. New York had tried to postpone issuing regulations and avoid the inevitable until it was sued by environmentalist groups and that led to a legislative pass. California is probably privately warning those groups not to play legal chicken lest it also modify the law.
New York wasn’t really the first state to fold. Rhode Island’s ridiculous plan to have fully green energy by 2031 is in the process of being pushed back to 2050. Massachusetts and Maryland are preparing to push back the timeline for some of their mandates. North Carolina is pushing back some of its goals from 2030. And as 2030 nears, more states will inevitably follow.
