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Electricity in New Jersey is very expensive. Atlantic City Electric is raising its rates 17% this June on top of its 20% increase last year.
This was caused by Democrats! They shut down our two most efficient generators without replacing them. In 2018, they shut down the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Lacey Township. They also shut down a natural gas pipeline so the Beesley’s Point plant in Marmora could stop using oil. In 2019, they shut the plant down. In 2022 they blew it up so it could never be used again.
Democrats instead forced all New Jersey electric companies to buy expensive and unreliable “green” electricity from out of state. They also forced them to pay top dollar for inefficient and almost useless solar and wind projects.
Above Image: March 24, 2025 Opinion Piece by Atlantic City Councilman Kaleem Shabazz in Press of Atlantic City. Click Here For LinkTo Full Post: Who should pay for Atlantic City’s climate flood risks?
Democrats are demanding even more “green” electricity even though it is driving up electric bills. Last week Councilman Kaleem Shabazz, a leading Democrat from Atlantic City praised “our state leaders” for “moving toward 100% clean energy by 2035”.
Democrats refuse to admit that nuclear power and natural gas also provide “clean energy”. To them, only wind and solar qualify.
As their electric bills go up, voters slowly learn how this is caused by solar panels and wind turbine projects. Right now, electric companies charge every customer for these added costs.
Democrats don’t like that. They don’t want their base of low-income voters to see the connection between green energy and high electric bills they can’t afford. Democrats want businesses and middle- and higher-income families to pay a lot more so that low-income Democrat voters don’t pay the high cost of their “green” electricity.
If Republicans were smart and disciplined, they would clobber Democrats with this issue. Republicans would loudly and repeatedly blame Democrats for shutting down our most productive power plants. They would repeatedly explain why wind and solar projects produce little or no useful energy and how they drive up electric bills. Every Republican running for every office from Governor to township committee would promise to start building, replacing, and expanding natural gas and nuclear power plants that would make electricity affordable again.
With this one issue, Republicans could elect a Republican Governor and win a majority of the seats in the New Jersey State Senate and Assembly for the first time since 2001. However, most are silent on this issue, while nearly half are supporting Democrats!
On March 27, Democrats brought Assembly Bill A3283 up for a vote. It is the first step to income based electric bills in New Jersey. It creates a $25 million slush fund. Some of that money comes from unclaimed deposits with gas, electric and water companies. The rest comes from the “societal benefits fee” added to our electric bills.
That money will be given to selected “nonprofit public utility assistance organizations”. Most of these groups are run by Democrat activists. Much of that money will pay for salaries and benefits. They will have plenty of time to campaign for Democrat causes and candidates by the November elections. They will use the rest to pay all or part of the electric bills for selected voters before the election.
The program is designed to quickly run out of money. Most of the $25 million slush fund comes from unclaimed deposits that took years to accumulate. However, once Democrats create a program and demonstrate a need, they will find it easy to keep increasing the “societal benefits charge” on businesses and middle/upper-income families to keep the program going.
Republicans said and did nothing to publicly oppose this gateway drug for income-based electric bills. On the contrary, 9 Republicans voted for it. They included Assembly Republicans Don Guardian, Claire Swift, and Michael Torrissi of Atlantic County. They also included Antwan McClellan of Cape May/Cumberland County. Erik Simonsen did not vote.
Don Guardian said research supplied by the office of NJ Assembly Republicans did not raise any objections to the bill. However, Republican Assembly Minority Leader John DiMaio voted against the bill.
In Ocean County, Republicans Greg Myhre, Brian Rumpf, Paul Kanitra and Greg McGucken voted “No”.
The bill will now go to the NJ State Senate. What will Republican Senators Vince Polistina and Michael Testa say about it? What will they do? How will they vote? What with the Republicans running for Governor do or say?
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I write our Congressman Jeff Van Drew about this theft of our wallet by the Eco Dramacrats weekly. He is truly angry about the wasted monies thrown away by Governor Murphy and the epic failure of offshore follies. Unrecovered millions (billions?) of New Jersey ratepayers and taxpayers funds. He is holding the NJBPU head accountable and has called the Board to Washington to answer hard questions.