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We have to give a wobbly Yay? to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s pause of an idiotic green mandate, since her record tells you she’ll let the pain kick in once the next election’s safely over.
On Wednesday, the gov officially put off her ban on natural gas in new homes and buildings under seven stories, yielding to upstate Assembly Democrats’ concern that the mandate has hiked construction costs threatening . . . their re-election chances.
But voters have every reason to believe the mandate will return once Hochul’s past the 2026 elections, just as her congestion-toll pause ended after the 2024 elections.
It’s not like she’s shown the least sign of taking up our challenge to ax New York’s insane “climate” laws completely.
Previously due to take effect on Jan. 1, the All-Electric Building Act pretends that forcing a switch to electric heat and cooking will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions — even though New York’s electric supply relies on burning more fossil fuels than it did a decade ago.
Worse: Needlessly upping demand for electricity (as the state’s electric-vehicle mandates also do) stresses the transmission grid, while other “climate” laws endangers the reliability of the power supply by forcing it do depend on highly-variable solar and wind generation — which is also more expensive.
In other gestures to energy realism, Hochul is trying to encourage new nuclear plants and even recently OK’d the Williams/NESE natural gas pipeline, which New Jersey regulators also un-blocked — with both states yielding to pressure from the Trump administration.
New York got stuck with the insane Climate Action Plan when then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo was eyeing a future presidential run.
It never made sense except as a symbolic trophy to impress Democratic primary voters, but that’s been enough for Hochul to largely keep supporting it, even as it forces utility bills higher without doing anything to save the planet.
If the gov were serious about ensuring long-term affordability for average New Yorkers — especially for young people wanting to own a home or to rent an apartment at a reasonable price — she’d push for outright repeal of the All-Electric Building Act come January, then follow with as much rollback of the Climate Action agenda as she can manage.
But with her eye on fending off a left-wing primary challenger as she seeks re-election, all she’ll do is delay the pain.
Voters shouldn’t be fooled: The only way to get long-term affordable energy is to evict every Democratic officeholder you can.