[Editorial]
The Republicans blame everything on the Democrats from immigration to the price of electricity!
Here in Connecticut the Republicans blame it on the Public Benefits Charge which adds about $40 to $80 per month to the bill. But the real thing that is hurting Connecticut electric rate is Millstone! You see at the Republicans urging the state entered into an agreement to buy Millstone power at a fixed rate! That adds another $40 to $70 per month to the bill!
Then we have the price of energy, especially to the price of natural gas! The national average residential electricity rate has hit roughly 18.05 cents per kWh, a 5.4% increase over last year!
How are the Republicans going to stop the price of natural gas from going up?
Then we have Trump’s tariffs! Yup, as a result of Trump’s tariffs on Canada some of the Providences imposed a 25% tariff on energy exports!
The future doesn't look much better because of the war on renewables. The Trump’s moves to block offshore wind projects—including projects like Revolution Wind that Connecticut was counting on—will have a massive impact on our future rates. By killing off the very projects meant to provide cheap, local power and reduce our dependence on expensive natural gas, Trump wants us to be locking us into higher prices for years to come.
But the Connecticut Republicans have been hamming away at the Democrats for the price of electricity! When it is really beyond anything one state can do!
In the late ‘90s the buzz word was "Deregulation!" They forced the utilities to sell off their only income producing power plants and now we are at the whim of the suppliers! And as we add more regulations like how long an outage can be is added expenses to the utilities! They have to bring in extra crews at outrageous hourly costs to just sit around just in case of an outage!
So the next time you hear Republicans harping on the cost of electricity as them how? The Public Benefits Charge is only a small fraction of the increases in the price of electricity!
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