New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is a “national leader in forcing residents and businesses to pursue climate goals yielding virtuous feelings but resulting in no meaningful change in global or even national greenhouse gas warming.” Here’s the latest Murphy climate debacle. Murphy’s Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) has floated a plan forcing all entities using industrial and commercial boilers to power those boilers with electricity instead of natural gas by 2025 (three short years away). The DEP claimed it would only raise costs for operators by maybe 4-5%. As it turns out, someone at the DEP made a math error. The cost of using electricity over natural gas for the boilers, admits the DEP, is actually an increase of 400-500%! Whoops.
