It’s like a million years ago in internet time, but quite recent in the real world. After decades of policy choices meant to make electricity more expensive, and everything else with it, the political left attempted to blame Donald Trump and Republicans for what they did.
We see a similar reaction to motor-fuel prices. They love them high. Need them high. Want them higher, and their policies make them that way, but they’ll lie about it and expect you to forget the truth.
And so it goes with Mayor Wu, Boston’s latest diversity hire, a typical blue state loon whose recently released “climate” plan is another message to everyone everywhere as we approach another election.
BOSTON — Mayor Michelle Wu just released a 212-page climate plan that tells Bostonians how they’ll need to heat their homes, what kind of stove they can cook on, how they should get to work, and what their landlord will have to spend on building upgrades — all in the name of cutting the city’s emissions in half by 2030.
Sounds like the sort of top-down direction you’d expect from a king, or in this case, a queen. We shall cut emissions no matter how much it hurts you, your employer, and your lifestyle.
No government employee or agency will be harmed; their budgets, staffing, and emissions will go up because it is necessary to ensure you do what they require.
Small businesses, and anyone in any of the city’s 70,000 smaller buildings, many of them very old, will have to meet the new guidelines or pay protection fees.
It’s a grift. You need to do this for the good of the city, but if you can’t afford all the necessary changes, you can make Alternative Compliance Payments forever, instead. A cost that will be passed down to renters and, in the case of businesses, their customers.
In theory, everyone could just pay the tax, and the city would pretend to use it to offset someone else’s emissions, but since these are Democrats running an unaccountable bureaucracy, that will never happen.
We also know that offset programs are more often than not just money laundering operations that, like all Democrats, do not do what they claim and more than likely make matters worse. But they don’t mind because it makes them rich, and rich people donate to democrats to keep the grift alive.
The plan also creates a “Restaurant Decarbonization Task Force” — a group that will study how to transition commercial kitchens from gas to electric. They acknowledge that restaurants “rely heavily on gas,” that “high upfront costs” make the switch “especially difficult for small or tenant-operated businesses,” and that restaurants have been “found to participate in the Mass Save program at much lower rates than larger businesses.” The task force report is due in 2027.
And there’s a $1 million pilot to replace gas stoves with electric induction in Dorchester public housing — partnered with Boston University to study the “health and cost benefits.” If it works, they’ll expand it citywide.
Wu’s plan has all the typical nonsense. Replace gas stoves with electric ones. Replace your safe cars with EVs and cars in general with public transportation, a move they hope to incentivize by making everything else you do in your passenger vehicle cost more.
Money for fending off the rising seas, you name it, they have a plan for redirecting your money to things they can’t change or for changes that will be meaningless – unless you happen to get a grant or job to manage or enforce the impossible, unnecessary goals of the Climate Cult.
Long story short, you voted for this, so feel free to say Wu is me. Boston was already an expensive place to live, work, and play. Thanks to Democrats, some of whom still think they can run on making your life more affordable, it is about to get even more expensive.
