Oh, boy. This should be good.
On Tuesday, Democrat Mikie Sherrill [became] the next governor of the doomed state of New Jersey, and she’s already planning some of that razzle damn dazzle that Democrats do so well. [some emphasis, links added]
She’s going to ‘freeze electric rates’ in the state while simultaneously accelerating ‘new power generation.’
Oh, man – that’s a neat trick to pull off. You go, girl.
“New Jersey’s new governor, Mikie Sherrill, is poised to freeze electricity rates on her first day in office, following through on a key campaign promise as US politicians including President Donald Trump rush to take on soaring energy costs.
“Sherrill, a Democrat, will issue an executive order calling a state of emergency on utility costs after she’s sworn into office Tuesday, said a person familiar with the matter. The much-anticipated moves will enable New Jersey to block utility-rate increases sought by companies while it accelerates new power generation, said Allison Clements, co-chair of Sherrill’s energy transition team.”
And how exactly does the whiz kid who can turn a couple of years in Congress and a couple of hundred thousand dollars in assets into seven million bucks and the governor’s gig go about performing this feat of almost superhuman, well…whut?
Something new and exciting she’s kept under wraps, possibly? Innovative technology no one’s heard about yet?
Frankly, I’d be surprised because she never once struck me during the campaign as anything other than a mediocre intellect coasting on being female, but hey! Everyone deserves a chance to shi…you’ve got to be kidding.
“…In New Jersey, where power bills were expected to jump as much as 20% as a result of an auction last year, Sherrill is readying a series of measures to ease the pain, said Clements, who served on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, mostly during the Biden administration.
“The steps include immediately connecting small, community-based solar projects, expanding programs that pay customers to reduce electricity use during peak demand and boosting enrollment in bill-assistance programs.
“…Sherrill has also said she will fast-track stalled solar and battery storage projects, pursue new nuclear development and modernize existing natural gas facilities. The former Navy helicopter pilot and congresswoman has also pledged to take Trump and regional grid operator PJM Interconnection to court to force faster connections for clean energy projects.”
Absolutely worthless.
The only thing remotely worth pursuing in her little laundry list that would make the quickest impact is modernizing existing natural gas plants.
What would make an exponentially faster impact would be building NEW ones to tide everyone over until nuclear plants could finally come online.
Because attempting to build nukes in NJ is going to take forever, IF ever, and little Miss Governor Solar Cell damn well knows it. I have no doubt she’s counting on it as an excuse to push for the offshore wind farm developments to restart.
The state is already operating at a net loss in power generation compared to just eight years ago, thanks to the premature retirement of plants without replacements being brought online.
As much as I would love to hang it all around Phil Murphy’s skinny, verminous neck, the single nuclear plant that shut down ten years prematurely on his watch began as a Chris Christie initiative (One more reason to despise that back-stabbing RINO food blister.).
“…The amount of power New Jersey supplies to the grid run by PJM fell over Murphy’s tenure despite increases to the state’s overall generation, according to a New Jersey Monitor review of state and federal energy data.
“Roughly 2,914 megawatts in grid generation were retired under Murphy through the end of August. Since the start of Murphy’s first term in 2018, New Jersey has added 1,417 megawatts in grid generation, meaning the grid saw a net loss of about 1,500 megawatts from New Jersey over the governor’s time in office.
“…Hale last month released a study examining a decade of energy policy in New Jersey and neighboring states, one that concludes New Jersey did not create a “plan B” that would have mitigated any failures to increase its renewable and clean energy capacity.
” ‘Instead of looking at renewables or not renewables, the better policy would’ve been ‘let’s get rid of the worst.’ Let’s get rid of coal, but in a transition period, let’s turn those coal plants into natural gas so we have that power,‘ Hale told the New Jersey Monitor.”
The power that did come online hasn’t been reliable; it’s been renewable.
And now Jersey Mikie is all set to save the state by throwing more money the state doesn’t have at subsidies for already stretched ratepayers (which does not address the core rate issue in the least) and slapping solar cells on homes, which are often covered with snow for the winter months – detrimental, I have heard, for power generation.
Money into the wind rather than build new gas-fired plants now in lieu of nuclear plants that may never materialize.
Honest to God – if pipe dreams were dollar bills, New Jersey could buy anything in the world seven times over.
Top: Mikie Sherrill signs 2 executive orders on energy bills as soon as she takes office (CBS/YouTube screencap).
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“she never once struck me during the campaign as anything other than a mediocre intellect coasting on being female”
She must have above average intelligence to be a helicopter pilot, a congressperson and a governor. Sherrill served nearly 10 years on active duty in the U.S. Navy as a Sea King helicopter pilot. She was part of the first class of women at the Naval Academy eligible for combat roles. Sherrill also previously served as a federal prosecutor and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. Mikie Sherrill has a law degree (J.D. from Georgetown University) and served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, confirming she was a prosecutor, which requires legal qualifications.
In 1994, she earned her Bachelor of Science from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. In 2003, Sherrill received an MSc in international and world history from the London School of Economics. In 2004, she received a certificate in Arabic language from the American University in Cairo.
The author Beeb’s repeated put downs prove that he is not one to be listened to. Beeb is a boob (hack writer, Republican, with no college degree)
Not having a college degree makes him ignorant if not stupid but having a college degree makes one brilliant. Talk about elitism.
All those things you list about Sherrill means she is intellectually smart but none of that shows she has the common sense. She is clearly far left-wing but lied about it while running for office. And now it the citizens of NJ who are going to suffer.
All politicians lie when making promises running for office, and Trump is one of the worst.
Mickey Cheryl is obviously an intelligent person who does not deserve repeated put downs in the article.
She does not appear to be intelligent on the subject of energy.
Mickey Sherrill was in office only two days before this hack writer began attacking her. His writing is biased and insulting.