Senator Madden, Assembly people Moriarty and Mosquera:
American
Citizens Lobbyist Group
New Jersey
Rejoining
the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI),
will do
nothing more than tax electricity.
We
don’t want or need any more taxes.
The Assembly Telecommunications and
Utilities Committee meets Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 10:00 AM in Committee
Room 11, 4th Floor, State House Annex, Trenton, NJ
The committee will take testimony from
stakeholders and invited guests on issues relating to the effects of climate
change on the provision of energy in New
Jersey. The
committee will take testimony concerning President Obama's Climate Action Plan,
reducing consumption of traditional energy sources, the need for the State to
rejoin RGGI, and the corresponding relationship between these issues.
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
(RGGI), was never designed to actually do anything about climate change. It was
designed as a model for national cap-and-trade legislation, and as a revenue
stream for green energy lobby.
There is no NJ resident that I can
think of who would benefit by paying higher electric bills.
Lower income citizens and those who
are unemployed would suffer the most if electric bills go up because of this
unnecessary and useless tax on carbon that would occur if NJ rejoins the
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI),
Nor would any business in the state
benefit from higher electric bills.
In New
Hampshire (the live Free or Die State)
they had the following experience.
It was also a prime example
of what happens when unelected state officials are given the power to make
appropriations. They awarded money to Dartmouth College
and Dannon subsidiary Stonyfield Yogurt to pay for capital improvements that
would lower their electric bills. Some would argue that an Ivy League college
and an international food conglomerate could afford their own energy upgrades.
Millions more went to green energy consultants. The PUC even gave grants to
many of the groups advising them on how to spend RGGI money.
RGGI was never designed to
actually do anything about climate change. It was designed as a model for
national cap-and-trade legislation, and as a revenue stream for green energy
lobby.
JOIN UP!
American Citizens Lobbyist Group - NJ
Basil Mantagas, NJ Director, 646-825-0776,
bmantagas.aclg@gmail.com
10.07.13, Regional Greenhouse
Gas Initiative