The Issue: Con Edison’s proposed rate hikes in the wake of the state’s green energy plan.
Gov. Hochul’s green energy plan has New Yorkers seeing red (“Shocking,” Feb. 6).
The governor is clueless when it comes to energy, and Con Ed has done a public service by holding up the mirror for all to see just what her politically motivated ambitions will cost us.
The New York Power Authority has acquiesced to floating billions in bonds for a technically flawed and impractical energy source.
The energy plan for New York state needs to be halted and replaced with a sound, cost-effective program, beginning with upgrading the transmission systems.
James Foley
Airmont
What do New York City residents expect?
Gov. Hochul and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed green, clean-air initiatives that are costing New Yorkers dearly.
We complain about rising energy costs, yet we continue to vote for Democrats who push these green agendas.
How does that saying go?
We keep voting for the same candidates but expect a different outcome.
Daniel Karas
Huntington
Forcing consumers to pay for rising energy costs is disagreeable: On that point, I agree with The Post’s editors.
But fossil-fuel companies knew about the dangers of their emissions as early as the 1950s.
They hid this knowledge with active misinformation campaigns to delay action and should be paying for the long-overdue grid upgrades.
Gov. Hochul and the “insane” Democrats have already started that process with the bill that will make polluters pay.
This creates consequences for the truly insane: corporations that think they can continue to profit while creating an unlivable climate.
Mary Memmott
Framingham, Mass.
It isn’t that state leaders are merely ignorant or a lack of any serious plan to upgrade the grid to meet their EV goals.
It is their innate lack of serious critical thinking ability.
Issuing royal fiats doesn’t get their Green New Deal done — it punishes, once again, those who can least afford it.
Here’s hoping they’re finally tossed out in the next election cycle.
Michael Favata
Bronxville
The Issue: Democrats rebuke Elon Musk’s hands-on approach to cutting government spending.
Democrats, led by Sen. Chuck Schumer, have lost their collective minds over Elon Musk’s auditing of wasteful, useless and unregulated government programs in an attempt to save trillions of taxpayer dollars (“Why Trump Reforms Enrage the DC Elites,” PostOpinion, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Feb. 5).
Their rage appears to be directed both at Musk personally and at his hiring of young people, some between 19 and 26 years old, as staff.
Schumer and his minions are, not surprisingly, woefully ignorant of US history.
At the time of the American Revolution, James Monroe was 18, Aaron Burr was 20, Alexander Hamilton was 21, James Madison was 25, and Thomas Jefferson was the “old man” at 33.
Jack Kaufman
Naples, Fla.
I find it hilarious that fools like Schumer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Cory Booker are ranting and raving about unelected people like Elon Musk exposing all the waste of taxpayer dollars.
What about George Soros funding corrupt DAs and prosecutors who set criminals free to commit more crimes?
Seems like those aforementioned fools fear being exposed for their participation in wasteful spending.
Hopefully, the American people vote them out of office.
Mary Ann Pizzi
East Hanover, NJ
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