Governor Maura Healey is outraged. Outraged, I tell you! And when a politician is outraged, you know it’s serious — because it usually means they’ve just been caught red-handed creating a problem that’s now torching the people who elected them. This time, the crisis is Massachusetts families staring down a nearly 20 percent hike in their winter heating bills. According to Mass Daily News, Healey stormed to the cameras to thunder, “These rate hikes are outrageous. I am urging the DPU to scrutinize this proposal and push back on Eversource”.
Yes, the governor who strangled natural gas pipelines in their crib is now shocked — shocked! — to find there isn’t enough gas to keep the state warm without paying European-import prices. This is like smashing your car with a baseball bat, then screaming at the mechanic when it won’t start.
Let’s review the tape. Healey, back when she was Attorney General, gleefully bragged about killing not one, but two pipelines that would have brought desperately needed natural gas into the Bay State. She weaponized a glossy 2015 “climate report” that insisted Massachusetts didn’t need new pipelines — because, of course, renewable pixie dust was just around the corner. She crowed in a radio interview that she “stood up for ratepayers” by ensuring pipeline companies couldn’t push costs onto consumers. The companies walked, the pipelines died, and Healey took a victory lap.
Fast forward to 2025. The gas bills are set to explode by as much as 17 percent this winter. The families she claimed to “stand up for” are now wondering how exactly freezing in their living rooms qualifies as standing up for them. And Healey? She’s on TV, wagging her finger at the utility companies, pretending to be the victim of some corporate conspiracy.
The problem for Healey is that voters aren’t as dumb as she hopes. They remember who killed those pipelines. They remember who promised sunshine and sea breezes would magically meet demand. They remember the speeches, the boasts, the green sanctimony. The whole thing is a classic case of the arsonist showing up at the fire scene, screaming at the flames she lit herself.
Of course, this isn’t just a Massachusetts problem. It’s the climate cult’s entire business model. These are the same geniuses who spent decades chanting “no more pipelines,” then acted shocked when energy prices went up. They assured us offshore wind farms would replace fossil fuels, then demanded billions in subsidies when the turbines couldn’t turn a profit. They shut down coal plants, then panicked when the grid buckled during a cold snap. Every time, it’s the same script: sabotage supply, spike costs, feign outrage, and blame somebody else.
Remember California’s rolling blackouts? Same religion, different pew. Remember Germany’s “Energiewende,” the great green transition that left the country hooked on Russian gas and burning more coal than ever? Same genius plan, same failure. Massachusetts is just the latest episode of the global warming soap opera, where the heroes always make life harder for the people they claim to save.
And Healey’s performance is priceless. “Outrageous!” she cries, as if the laws of supply and demand are some sinister plot hatched by Eversource executives in a smoky boardroom. Newsflash: when you block supply and increase demand, prices go up. This isn’t dark sorcery. It’s Economics 101. But apparently the syllabus at progressive finishing school skipped that chapter.
It gets better. Back in 2015, the official line from Healey’s office was that Massachusetts could coast until 2030 without new pipelines, relying on “efficiency programs” and “climate goals”. Translation: turn down your thermostat, buy a sweater, and pray to Saint Greta of Thunberg. Now, in 2025, here’s the result: no new pipelines, no extra supply, and “crushing bills” landing on families who can barely cover groceries and housing.
This is what happens when political vanity meets basic utility. Healey wanted to be a climate warrior. Massachusetts voters wanted affordable heat. Guess who wins? Spoiler: it’s not the voters.
And let’s be clear: Healey’s outrage isn’t about the families getting clobbered. It’s about political damage control. Winter heating bills don’t care about talking points. When those bills show up in January with numbers that look like your mortgage payment, people get angry — not at utilities, but at the politicians who made sure there wasn’t enough fuel to go around.
The Mass Daily News piece nails it: “Healey wants the spotlight as the savior, railing against corporations and regulators, but many see her as the arsonist-turned-firefighter, raging against flames she lit herself”. You can almost hear the campaign ad: “This winter, the politics won’t heat your home. The bill will.”
And boy, that bill will. Families are going to get hammered. And while Healey postures about “standing up to Big Utility,” the reality is that utilities can’t conjure gas out of thin air. When you kill pipelines, you kill supply. When you kill supply, you pay more. It’s that simple.
There’s a dark humor in all this. The very people who elected this green messiah are now stuck paying for her crusade. They wanted to save the planet, and instead they’re saving up for extra blankets. It’s the political equivalent of demanding kale at every meal, then acting surprised when you’re still hungry.
But here’s the bigger point: this isn’t incompetence. It’s intentional. The climate left believes pain is the point. They want energy expensive, because they think that will force people into “green choices.” In reality, it forces people into poverty, but hey — as long as the activists feel virtuous at their donor banquets, who cares?
And yet, there’s always that delicious hypocrisy. These same leaders who tell you to “tighten your belt” on heating costs are the ones jetting to climate conferences in Europe. They shut down pipelines for you, then make sure their government offices are toasty warm all winter. They demand “sacrifice” while living like royalty. If the Romans had this level of hypocrisy, Nero would have fiddled while somebody else froze.
So now we head into winter with a state full of furious voters, a governor trying desperately to memory-hole her pipeline-killing past, and utility bills that could double as ransom notes. And when the people shiver, remember who brought them to this place. It wasn’t Eversource. It wasn’t some greedy executive. It was the governor who thought green ideology mattered more than warm homes.
The politics won’t heat your home. The bill will. And when it lands, every Massachusetts voter should tape it to their fridge with one question scrawled across the top in red marker: “How’s that climate leadership working out for you?”
Author’s Note: Yes I’m home, no surgery, wearing a neck brace for three months, and consider myself incredibly blessed and lucky for not being paralyzed or dead. As someone told me today, I just missed the death offramp and now all my time is bonus time.
A few weeks ago, we had a poster who was railing against energy companies because every winter, just when people start using natural gas, the cost of natural gas rose. During the summer, when people weren’t using it, the cost fell.
It was a conspiracy he assured us.
Ignorance of basic economics is ripe in this country, and around the world.
But they have been educated in boys can be girls, and converse, and all white males are racist, and math is systemic racism and illegal aliens should get tax payer dollars for everything (homeless vets do not matter) and on and on and on.
Remember, WEF said it best: “You will have nothing and you will be happy.”
In some states you can’t call people illegal aliens- they must politely be called immigrants- as if they’re moving from the west coast to the east coast or whatever.
INA calls them illegal aliens. I stand by Federal Law.
Legally, yes- but state governments and the media, in some states, will call them migrants- with much to say about how horrible ICE is to them- like here in Wokachusetts. Makes me puke to hear that BS.
I’ve always felt that a course in basic economics should be mandatory in every high school. It is difficult to understand the complex world we live in if you don’t know at least some economics.
I’ve heard many classes people would like to be mandatory in every high school but having attended a public New England high school it occurs to me that a mandatory high school economics class would throw out supply and demand to jump straight to the good stuff… like socialism.
Much akin to what they have accomplished in Science?
Sad.
US History and Civics? I seem to remember learning some basic elements of economics in HS. I can’t remember what exactly, just that I did.
principle #1: supply and demand governs prices (most of the time)
Artificially mess with either, “Houston, we have a problem.”
Maybe this varies by state and fuel source, but…
AI Overview
Massachusetts home utility bills are generally higher in the summer due to increased air conditioning use, with electricity usage potentially increasing by 30% or more during hot months. While high gas bills can also occur in the winter, the peak demand for electricity from air conditioning is the primary driver of higher utility bills in the summer for the state’s residents.
They’re screwed year-round.
Still basic supply and demand. Demand is high for electricity in the summer, so the price is higher. Demand for gas is higher in the winter, so it’s price peak is in the winter.
Kinda like what happens at government ran grocery stores isn’t it. Only so much money in revenue from cheap prices yet supply always meets demand! /S
Mamdani wants to create government run grocery stores in NYC. After all, they worked so well in the Soviet Union. /s
I read about some city-run grocery stores in a US town not long ago that (you would think) should serve as a lesson. But apparently not.
That would be Kansas City, and the store is closed now. Didn’t have enough stock, the produce went bad when no one shopped there and bought it, lost money.
“How’s that climate leadership working out for you?”
Same here in NY. Our 2019 “Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act” – the CLCPA – is indeed just an act. A play. A farce. Governor Hochul is on stage, and winter is coming. Electricity bills have already surged, and we haven’t seen the full impact yet. But hey, my utility company says they will install a “smart meter” soon. Woohoo! Relief! /sarc
P.S. Glad to hear you are home and OK, CR!
People seem quite ignorant that “smart meters” consume electricity that the consumer pays for.
In addition to being used to justify raising their electricity costs generally if they (horror!) use electricity when demand is high (aka, as usual).
The other thing they do is allow the electricity supplier to turn off your supply if/when they feel like it.
So far I have ignored all Scottish Power blandishments and so far they haven’t tried to break into the house to fit one.
Doesn’t the term ‘smart’ mean Self Monitoring And Reporting Tech? No mention of saving energy or money.
That would explain the early posturing of Rham Emanuel framing higher electricity prices as a DJT issue. The deflection game and finger pointing of the Party has officially begun.
Governor Hochul of New York has now endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City, an outright and unapologetic marxist/communist.
IMHO, she didn’t have much choice in the matter given that a large portion of her own voter constituency strongly supports Mamdani and that he is certain to become the next mayor of NYC.
The election of Mamdani will increase pressure on the Hochul administration to move farther and faster in fulfilling her Net Zero promises as are codified of the state’s 2019 Climate Act.
It will be most fascinating to observe just how much farther and how much faster the Hochul administration now moves in attempting to do the impossible.
And to see what kind of political price, if any, Governor Hochul might eventually pay for not achieving the 2019 Climate Act’s impossible goals.
As I’ve been saying for some number of years now, many if not most New Yorkers will deny their energy lifeboat is sinking even while the cold waters of the forthcoming blackouts are swirling around their feet.
New Yorkers have nothing to fear and worry about, because EPA Admin. Lee Zeldin will soon issue an announcement rescinding the 2009 CO2 Endangerment Finding, which will be posted in the Federal Register.
When this occurs, whatever will Gov. Kathy H. do? She will have to eat humble pie and repeal the Climate Act. Interesting times are ahead.
I don’t see how rescinding the endangerment finding will force her to do anything.
The endangerment finding was just one of the many pieces of bad science that they are relying on.
When the Endangerment Finding is rescinded and CO2 and is no longer designated a pollutant by the EPA, this decision becomes a federal regulation, and can’t be supersede by any state law. If NY state did not repeal the Climate Act, Francis M. and his fellow lawyers would sue NY state to compel it to repeal completely the Climate Act of 2019.
There is an election next year for Governor, and Republican Candidate Katie Miller has vowed to repeal completely the Climate Act. If the winter in NY is very cold and snowy, and if heating and electricity bills soar, she has an improved chance of winning the election.
You left out blackouts and people freezing to death.
It can happen. I hope it doesn’t, but one must consider the possiblitiy.
As long as state regulations do not directly contradict a federal regulation, states are free to regulate whatever they want.
As long as state regulations do not directly contradict a federal regulation, states are free to regulate whatever they want.
Why the double post of the comment?
Don’t know, the system seems to do that from time to time.
For the person who down voted that comment, are you of the opinion that states should be allowed to do only what the federal government lets them do?
I suspect he is an opponent of double posts. /s
Even if that could happen, it would take years for the courts to hear the case and decide, and more years to build the necessary facilities. New Yorkers will move away or freeze to death before there is a resolution.
“will have to” is a leap to far.
No. As Newsom has already shown, the state will go on doing what it wants. Faced with a reversal of the vehicle pollution waiver, under which California was allowed to set its own standards, Newsom just issued an executive order setting California’s own rules. Federal CAFE standards relieved, Newsom set rules for California. EV mandates relieved, Newsom set rules for California. Hochul can do the same.
People here have to be more careful with words like “explode” and “surge” around gas stories. The site is already on too many watch lists.
What do you know about the Katie Miller lady? Does she have a good chance of winning the election for governor and vanquishing the Climate Cartel in Albany?
“What do you know about the Katie Miller lady?” I know nothing about her at this point.
If she’s a Republican, the odds are she will spend the next 4 years fighting with the Democrat controlled legislature and nothing will be done.
Which would be an improvement for New York.
Glad you are home and on the mend.
Just remember, though, that it is better to sail on the sea than to actually immerse yourself in it. For example, look what it does to steel ships, and steel is much harder than skin.
Saint Greta of Thunberg
That piece of humor is priceless.
There needs to be a “what ever happened to” article for St G. I have not heard anything about her since she ?got deported from Israel? Not sure that even happened it’s just floating in my brain case.
She is “leading” a flotilla of “aid” ships headed for Gaza with the stated purpose of “breaking the illegal Israeli blockade” and ending “genocide in Gaza.”
She’s a professional useful idiot.
Where does she get money for these forays? Is she a climate grifter?
As reported, and I have no means to verify, much of the funding came from Hamas, the Islamic Brotherhood, Hezbollah, and multiple other Islamic terrorist organizations.
Wow, I’m saving that one.
Healey is an infuriating liar, but one cannot escape the fact that the voters of Massachusetts put her in office.
And they will do so again in 2026, with a huge victory margin. Maybe we should think about giving the entire US Northeast to Canada in a trade for Alberta and Saskatchewan.
That would be a really bad deal for Canada because those states have no oil, nat. gas, coal, uranium, and potash. No thank you.
If they learn what a bad deal big government socialism is, perhaps they might be ready to join the US as well.
Except for Quebec. Nobody wants them.
There is no socialism in Canada. That is a myth spread by envious right-wing republicans. Each province has its own universal medical health care system which basic standards set by Ottawa.
I know I’m not envious. According to the Fraser Institute, the median wait time in Canada between being referred to a specialist by a general practitioner and actually receiving the treatment now stands at thirty weeks.
That’s how they keep costs under control when health care is “free”. They just make sure most patients die before they can see a doctor.
Which is socialism.
Regardless, US health care is better cheaper, and actually available when you need it.
Agreed. I have no sympathy. Wokeachussetts got what it voted for. And, to paraphrase the immortal words of HL Mencken, “deserve to get it good and hard.”
So, it’s hardly surprising that Wokeachusetts is the fifth highest state in the US for people emigrating out. It’s surpassed only by California, New York, Illinois and New Jersey. All of these states share one thing in common: undisturbed Democrat rule.
Make stupid choices; get stupid results.
I’ve always thought in USA federal elections like presidential, cheating blue states and cheating red states roughly canceled each other out – so let them have it. More recently I think: what happens at inflection points when one color state wants to change to the other color state? There would be inertia or hysteresis fighting to keep the old ways even as the electorate was already tilted well into new ways. Maybe that’s positive too – stops chaos. A lot of the weirdness in the USA political system, like lifetime supreme court appointment, seems designed to survive an electorate that updates opinions too quickly for its own good.
Sorry got lost in the thought. Idea pointed back at Massachusetts and California political mistakes… those states do reliably highlight danger areas for the rest of the states.
OR: Did they _really_ get what they voted for?
Do you have any evidence of cheating in red states?
Yes. There are differences in the cultures preferred by R people and D people but they’re both still categories for people. I once watched a trustworthy, god fearing mom judging the long jump pit at a track meet fudge the numbers because her daughter “needed a win”. Cheating specific to vote counting? Nope. But people are people.
Worse, they will likely continue to put her in office as many times as Massachusetts law allows.
I agree. And it is not just one example of Massachusetts voters making bad choices. For example, consider Senator Elizabeth Warren. She is all for affirmative action. Then she falsely pretends that she is a Cherokee Indian to use affirmative action to advance her career. It turns out she isn’t actually a Cherokee Indian or any minority of any kind. It was all fake. If not for affirmative action and her claims of Cherokee heritage, she most likely would be teaching law at some small-town college in rural Oklahoma. But the voters of Massachusetts elected her their senator. Unbelievable.
BINGO!!!
That is why I don’t give a dam about the voter complaining as they set their own problem voting for airheads into power who damaged their energy profile.
You know, the above article brings to mind a favorite phrase of the AGW/CAGW alarmists: existential crisis.
Except that we’re now finding out there is only a financial “existential crisis” . . . as in, the average individual, let alone family, in the US being able to afford the cost of fossil fuel energy and electrical energy that is now required to live an ordinary life.
P.S., Welcome back, Charles, I’m hoping and praying that your recovery from your accident is swift and total!
TYS:
Yes. The real existential crisis is the “climate change” policies promoted by the
eco-theocracy/eco-catastrophists, not the climate. We can & will adapt to climate.
In the US, at least for the next 4 yrs, we have gotten off the “Stupid Train” [Mark Mills’ quip] of climate [ie energy] policy.
How many of the other nations wise-up remains to be seen.
A few more events like the Portugal-Spain blackouts, or sky rocketing fuel costs will speed up the process.
The good people of Massachusetts woke up a long, long time ago to start our Revolution. I’m not sure they will awaken from their leftist delusions they’ve had for decades now. Look at who they have elected going back 50 years and more – they have chosen charlatans over truth-tellers, every single time.
Markey made a career out of climate clap trap and never paid any price for it. That alone explains its allure to politicos and UN staff.
Ed Markey, born 1946, over age 80, predates it. Used it sure, but he was there first.
” a brace for three months”
Thanks, Charles – glad you survived. One of the rules of riding a horse is to keep the animal between you and the ground. It hurts like xxxx when you don’t. The spinal column objects for weeks.
Maybe Maura Healey would come out and run a chainsaw while I stack my winter heat source. She could learn that heat doesn’t just appear because you want it to.
John, Maura Healey knows full well that heat doesn’t appear just because you want it to. She is lying her a$$ off up one side and down the other simply to keep herself and her fellow ideologues in power. And she is doing it very successfully.
Just another example of the political class screwing the people who elect them. Happens everywhere in the “free world”, and doesn’t matter what label you put on those politicians. This old man hopes to still be around when the long needed revolution finally starts.
Too bad for the voters. They chose this nightmare. No one twisted their arms. So, now they get to enjoy the results of their silly choices.
Much like Ayn Rand, this old man hopes all his Social Security checks cash before the revolution starts.
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She’s on solid ground, after all, these are Massachusetts voters.
Charles, I’d no idea you were injured. Very best wishes.
Schadenfreude. You get what you asked for and deserve. The sad part of this is the media will twist this into a CC induced problem.
Yep, the irony of the fact that this charade was about making the world cooler will be lost on the “intellectual” voters? You know, the ones where the irony of hating billionaire donors is also lost.
When the power goes out in the dead of winter, the world will be cooler.
People get the politicians they vote into office.
One expects that Maura Healey told everyone exactly what she’d do, when she was running for office. They voted her in anyway. And now the fuel-poverty pigeons have come home to roost.
Same with Newsom in CA. The people voted him in knowing what he was, and what he would do. They now feel their piety by paying the highest energy prices in the U.S.
Sow the demagogue, reap the delusion.
Obama assured us that “electricity rates would rise” under his watch and we elected him anyway.
I tried to post just that in our local NextDoor site when people were complaining about their bills, and the comment was deleted, for attempted sedition, no doubt (quoting a President verbatim). Well I do live in libtard-central – the East San Francisco Bay Hills.
So glad you’re getting better CTM. Hopefully the neck brace isn’t too much of an impediment to the correct movement of a glass of wine !!!
Not me; I never voted for that POS for many reasons…and that was one of them. Smug, arrogant awipe still.
Remember, what matters is not how you mark your ballot, but who counts them.
In places with solidly entrenched machines, that can be very interesting.
It’s been notorious for generations that all residents of Chicago born before 1920 vote the straight Democratic ticket, no matter how deep they’re buried. 😉 😉
They remember who killed those pipelines
Do they? More importantly, will they, when it comes time to vote?
The lower classes should not be heating their homes at all. It is a form of genocide. Destroying the planet and boiling the children to death.
Ban home heating and there will be plenty of cheap gas.
Best wishes for continued recovery. Very lucky.
On the subject of the piece, same thing seems to be happening to the UK and is prompting (at last) the first steps in a U-turn on Net Zero. New runways at Heathrow and Gatwick, a reversal in North Sea oil and gas licensing. A ways to go yet, but its starting.
he fatal error the AGW movement has made is to advocate and demand specific policy solutions. And what is even worse is, they persuaded English speaking governments to try and implement them. So the whole movement was made dependent on the success of wind and solar as a replacement for dispatchable power. And as this blows up, it will take the movement with it, Totally discredited,
The validity of the science behind your motivation ceases to be important to the public if what you propose and get implement simply doesn’t work and isn’t affordable. This is what is happening wherever its being tried.
Allowing licences in the North Sea is just for show. EnQuest have already said no thanks while you’re taxing at 78%.
That’s the best graphic choice of the year. She’s getting there fast.
Also, the best phrase of the year is Jackpot Justice.
With respect and apologies to our commenter friend Joseph Zorzin, the liberal idiots of Taxassachusetts deserve exactly what they voted for…good and hard.
I cannot wait until these Coastal Elites run for national office and make their way into the rest of America. Newsom: “I want to bring you California gasoline prices.” Healey; “I want to bring you Massachusetts winter heating prices.”
In their small brains they are solving a problem. In reality they are creating a great many problems – for others to suffer.
Charles, neither your invective nor your sense of humo(u)r have suffered at all through your accident. Really well said. But be prepared for the brace to be on longer than three months!
Favorite pass time of socialists: always blame someone else.
Why yell at her? It is the voters who are the fundamental problem. Can’t fix stupid, and she ain’t stupid. My liberal relatives all vote for these politicians, and have no idea what they are voting for. They just know they hate Trump.
Yes, our democratic system is failing. Badly.
Healey doesn’t want to be outdone by Newsom in the hypocrisy stakes.