King Cuomo makes it clear he doesn't care if the peasants have reliable energy during a plague.
Washington Examiner (5/7/20) reports: "New York Democrats who are asking Congress to supply them with what is widely described as a 'coronavirus bailout' would be in a stronger economic and political position today if they took advantage of their state’s natural resources. Unlike neighboring Pennsylvania, New York has banned the use of hydraulic fracturing that can be used to extract oil and natural gas deposits available within an underground rock formation known as the Marcellus Shale. For this reason, New York residents have lost out on an energy production boom that would have enabled the state to produce more than enough natural gas to cover its own heating, electrical, and industrial needs. In fact, New York has enough untapped resources to become an exporter of natural gas to other states...The Institute for Energy Research, a nonprofit group based in Washington, D.C., that advocates for free market energy policies, has published some highly revealing figures that show how costly the ban on drilling has been in a state that is in desperate need of affordable, reliable energy. The Marcellus Shale extends from New York through Pennsylvania and West Virginia and includes small parts of Maryland and Virginia. But New York policymakers have effectively cut off 12 million acres from the Marcellus Shale that could be used to supply growing energy needs."
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"The sooner well-meaning environmentalists imbibe the inconvenient truths displayed in Planet of the Humans, and the sooner they forget its long-discredited Malthusian outlook, the better humanity’s planet will be as a result of human activities."
–Pierre Desrochers,
American Institute for Economic Research
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