America Last: Green Energy Policies Are Driving Up Your Electric Bills

Originally published by SaveJersey.com

Let’s start with the facts: our electric bills are exploding.

Massive 17% to 20% increases took effect on June 1, 2025 and another 5% increase is anticipated next summer. All of these exorbitant increases come on top of the 40% surge we experienced between 2019 and 2024 when rates jumped from 15.9 to 22.3 cents per kilowatt hour. Some resident ratepayers now report that their bills have doubled or even tripled from last summer. Policymakers in Trenton have been warned for years that a New Jersey energy crisis was looming. They did nothing to stop it. In fact, they exacerbated it.

Now, they’re anxiously searching for scapegoats to blame.

History tends to repeat itself. When Hubert Humphrey famously observed, “[t]o err is human. To blame someone else is politics,” he could have just as easily been describing the sorry state of New Jersey’s ongoing debate over our manmade energy crisis.

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