If the states do not confront America’s growing energy crisis head-on, the political stalemate currently being realized in New Jersey will be repeated across the country.
New Jersey’s skyrocketing electricity costs and the voter backlash they’ve triggered ought to worry every other state in the country. Energy prices are rising, capacity is shrinking, and too many politicians are clinging to policies that make both problems worse. As a former senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and vice chairman of the Digital Consumer and Consumer Protection Subcommittee, I’ve learned how vital it is to build new generation capacity and modernize our electric grid. Fortunately, states across the Southeast are taking that challenge seriously — while others, such as New Jersey and California, are not.
