We learned that we were able to get through reconsideration of HB154 (reconsideration failed), 44 regular calendar bills and 1 bill pulled off consent, between 9 am and 5:30 pm, with an hour for lunch (thankfully provided by the NH Nurses Association). Everyone was prepared to stay much longer into the evening, but speeches were relatively short, and we had a nice amount of voice votes on bills, too!
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Steve Beat Me to the Punch – Another Democrat Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud
There used to be a commenter here, whose name I forget but was a Bernie-Bro, that I used to ask one simple question when it came to taxes and Government spending:
Part Two: How Maggie Hassan Stuck NH with Electricity Rates That Are Double What They Should Be
CAPTAIN CLUCKER:” HEAR YE! HEAR YE! HEAR YE! The second meeting of the “CLUCKER COMMISSION” (my chickens self-assigned this name) is now in session. All those wishing to present nominations for the “MORON OF THE YEAR/YOU MIGHT BE A MORON” award, come forth and make your presentation.”
Why Doesn’t Chris Sununu Have This Kind of “Put My Citizens First” Courage?
For all of the fine-sounding words, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) does one thing: takes money from some so that Government will spend it elsewhere.
On Day One Gov Youngkin Releases the Kraken! Bans CRT, and Mask Mandates in Virginia Schools (And more, But Will it Last?)
After being sworn in, Governor Glenn Youngkin took office yesterday and proceeded to keep a laundry list of promises that have Democrats swearing up a storm.
Unelected ‘Redistricting Commissions’ Are a Bad Idea and Don’t Do a Better Job
Federal legislation that included a provision that required all 50 states to create redistricting commissions failed in the US Senate. In states like New Hampshire, there is still pressure to create them.
Hold on To Your Wallets – New England’s Governors Promising Regional Energy Improvements
New England has energy infrastructure issues. But none of them will be resolved by this. “Vermont Governor Phil Scott and governors from four Northeast states today issued a statement calling for reforms needed to achieve their states’ respective goals for clean, affordable, and reliable electricity.”
California Follows New Hampshire – Uses Carbon Credit Scam Fund For ‘Budget Bail Money’
New Hampshire is famous for its dedicated funds. Dedicated to whatever the spenders in Concord need when revenues don’t come in as predicted. For the record that’s primarily a Democrat problem but it’s a problem with a purpose.
New Hampshire Democrats Raise Your Electric Bill Again To Fund their Personal Priorities
Back around 2006 New Hampshire Democrats happily abrogated taxing authority to an out-of-state commission. This body, known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), was granted the power to tax you through your electric bill and then pass it off to Concord after taking a handling fee.
California Has the Nation’s Highest Gas Prices – Democrat Governor Has No Idea Why?
California has the highest gasoline prices in the nation. Higher than Hawaii. And Governor Gavin Newsom wants an investigation into why? Let me help. High Taxes. Excessive Regulations. Dwindling Infrastructure. Put another way; Democrat Policy is to blame.
NH Democrats Propose New Carbon Tax on Gasoline, Heating Oil, Gas, Coal, and Wood
New Hampshire Democrats are proposing a tax that would hike the price you pay for gasoline, heating oil, propane, and electricity produced by coal, oil, gas, or wood. All of that. And, everything else. The bill calls for a fee based on the per-ton emission of carbon dioxide, starting at $20 per ton in 2020 … Read more
New Hampshire Resident Thinks Raising Electric Rates is the Answer
In a recent Keene Sentinel letter to the editor, a resident suggests the new legislature stop giving any RGGI money back to ratepayers. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is a broad-based tax on electricity consumers. It can rise or fall without any elected official ever casting a vote. And it makes electricity more expensive.
Smacking RGGI Around
David Stevenson, writing at NH Journal, shares a recent report by The Analysis Group which
“…just released their review of the effects of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), and they give it an A+.”
If you’re not the guessing sort, there are a lot of issues with the report, which is not surprising because (as Stevenson points out) the Analysis Group is a paid consultant of RGGI.
A Green Game of Chess
New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan has written a letter to Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, objecting to a legislative effort in the “Nut”-meg state to redefine what Connecticut will view as ‘green energy’ to meet their renewable portfolio standard.
Why Did We Need RGGI?
With the recent approval of significant electric rate increases that will allow PSNH to recover some $67 million dollars a year in costs related to legislated state energy mandates (NH Renewable Standard and the RGGI tax), having this fall into my in-box could not have been more fortuitous.
From the journal Earth System Dynamics billed as “An Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union” comes this paper which suggests that the posited AGW forcing effects simply isn’t statistically significant in the observations, but other natural forcings are.
What that means is that a European Science journal is reporting a study that tried to consider all the data and all the factors that might influence global temperature change and human activity (AGW) was deemed statistically insignificant. The things that drive temperature change–natural forcings–are what makes the world get warmer and cooler.
So why did we need RGGI?
PUC Approves PSNH Rate Increase – Observe the Democrat’s Circular Green Firing Squad!
Back in September PSNH announced that it would need to rasie rates to deal with about 67 million dollars a year in costs associated with RGGI (and other state energy mandates)- a tax (RGGI) that Maggie Hassan was proud of, if you’ve forgotten. (Grokster Tom also has a nice treatment of those same stories here.)
At the time of that announcement the estimated annual hike on rate payers was about $50.00 per year, more for commercial users obviously. But the rate increase just approved by the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will cost you a good deal more than that. Make that a great deal more!
The World is NOT Getting Warmer…Mr. President!
Nothing speaks to the cloistered nature of what passes for left wing intelligence like Global Warming. It is the perfect litmus test. All you need do is ask and if the respondent sounds like this, you can rest assured that most everything else they know come from the same poisoned well.
What we do know is the temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted even 10 years ago.
This is President Obama, the smartest man in any room, repeating what he thinks he knows to be true. Unfortunately for the President and those similarly afflicted, not only has the earth not warmed faster than predicted even 10 years ago, it has not warmed at all.
The Laundry Bill Comes Due (Bumped)
[Bumped: Given that Maggie Hassan is so proud to have sponsored this tax, I figured I’d revisit this post from September 30th]
Originally posted September 30th
The New Hampshire Sunday News has delivered what can only be called the dropping of the other boot on our necks. I am referring to the impending rate hike by PSNH for state government mandates, including New Hampshire’s participation in the Region Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and the NH Renewable Portfolio Standard.
While rates have crept up for years this is the first real admission (I believe) by a local energy provider, that the time has come to deal with costs driven by the New Hampshire Democrat Parties war on cheap energy. As a result the average rate payer will see their annual bill go up about 50.00 a year, with commercial and government customers paying significantly more, costs that will find their way into your tax bills and the cost of all goods and services, right when you need them the least.
Maggie Hassan Proud to be a Sponsor of That Tax
Maggie Hassan keeps saying we need to have a conversation about taxes. We have them all the time. The difference is that Democrats talk about raising them (hundreds of them), and Republicans talk about controlling or lowering them. And then there are the conversations about taxes that slip out when you are least expecting them to.
We get just such an example from the September 19th Gubernatorial debate on business and the economy; when asked about RGGI, the Regional Greenhouse Gas initiative, Candidate Hassan said this…
I was proud to be a sponsor of that tax, eh, the energy efficiency program because it has saved businesses millions and millions of dollars and created over 400 jobs.
That’s a notable quote right there.
Global Warming Still a Hoax
How much warmer has the world become since a) 1880 and b) the beginning of 1997?
The answer to a) 0.75C
The answer to b) zero.
How much has wacky left wing energy policy based on this ridiculous idea cost us? Enough to buy the world a coke and keep it company several hundred times over. Include the global costs of compliance, regulation, loss of productivity and global GDP, dollars diverted to bankrupt green-energy projects, and energy inflation, and the whole-scale abandonment of cheap reliable energy has probably cost the world trillions.
But hey, we wasted that money and accumulated all the debt to help developing nations and our children…to..uh…remain developing nations and to inherit Anthropogenic Massive Debt. Which is why recent temperature data was released quietly with little to no media fanfare–they needed a few extra days to work on their narrative.