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Senator Madden, Assembly people Moriarty and Mosquera:

American Citizens Lobbyist Group

New Jersey

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Rejoining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI),

will do nothing more than tax electricity.

We don’t want or need any more taxes.

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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.

http://townhall.livefreeordiealliance.org/profiles/blogs/changes-in-greenhouse-gas-program-are-all-about-money

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American Citizens Lobbyist Group - NJ

Basil Mantagas, NJ Director, 646-825-0776, bmantagas.aclg@gmail.com

10.07.13, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative