New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and her Democrat legislative majority in Santa Fe have snuck in a version of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Green New Deal" into law with little or no public input.
Daniel Turner of Power The Future wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. It is titled, "Daniel Turner: Stealth AOC ‘Green New Deal’ now the law in New Mexico, voters be damned".
He begins with:
By now, the public is well aware of the “Green New Deal” proposed by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. They have not responded well to calls for forced veganism and banning airplanes, let alone giving up the American way of life made possible by cheap energy.
But while Ocasio-Cortez has taken the brunt of the media focus, environmental groups have developed a new strategy to get their way: pass a type of “Green New Deal” state by state.
It’s a smart tactic. They get friendly, left-leaning state legislators and governors, most of whom they financially backed in the past election, to do their dirty work. While the media is watching AOC marveling over garbage disposals and rejecting the racism of cauliflower, no one is reporting about bad laws taking shape in secret.
That’s exactly how radical green groups want it.
Their latest attempt was in New Mexico, and unfortunately, it succeeded. Newly-elected Democrat Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the “Energy Transition Act” in March. This law requires that New Mexico move to 100 percent carbon-free energy – the same long-term goal as the “Green New Deal.”
This destructive law is essentially a hidden carbon tax and will threaten the jobs of thousands of energy workers, raise utility rates, cut state revenue, and make green energy companies rich at the taxpayers’ expense.
Green groups have effectively rebranded “carbon tax” as “renewable energy mandates” and to get the same results: the end of fossil fuels. Force the elimination of low-cost energy sources and mandate high-cost renewables. Send the bill to customers. Say it’s “for the earth” and voilà, green energy companies get rich.
But no matter what you call it, it’s a tax, plain and simple. Economists agree. The University of Chicago, for example, recently released a report detailing how renewable mandates increase energy prices by 17 percent. The Heritage Foundation believes it might be even worse and could double electric bills on families.
Unless the Republican Party of New Mexico gets on board with a referendum on the ballot for voters to rescind this disastrous law, the New Mexico people are screwed.
Petitions are already being circulated.
From the Deming Headlight:
SANTA FE - More laws passed this year by the Democratic-controlled Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham are being targeted for repeal by self-described "patriot" groups from around New Mexico.
Five new referendum petitions aimed at bills such as an approved increase in New Mexico's $7.50-per-hour minimum wage, a landmark renewable energy law and a framework for having certain criminal records expunged from public view were filed last week with Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver's office.
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Need to enforce the carbon tax on all the materials needed to manufacture wind turbines and solar panels.
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