The legacy media recently fixated on news that the Canadian province of Ontario threatened to place surcharges on energy exports to the United States. The concern was that these surcharges could cause electricity prices in states such as New York to skyrocket. We find it distressing that only now, with President Donald Trump in office, does the media suddenly care about high prices in the north when these prices have already been unnecessarily high for decades.

The primary obstacle to lower electricity prices in the Northeastern U.S. is clear. Blue states have denied affordable and reliable energy by blocking pipeline construction, retiring generating facilities too early with no replacements, doubling their infrastructure costs with unreliable wind and solar, and levying exorbitant state taxes on affordable energy. These policies have punished the industries and mechanisms that make energy affordable in other states.