More $$ Going Into Public Benefits

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lama and his newly reappointed Pure chief supporting an initiative
to fund ev charging stations. It's an initiative and just
at the point where, if you're anything like me, you'll
start to fade and be like, well, that doesn't affect me,
It doesn't affect me. But but wait a minute, doesn't

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it if the cost will appear in that much ballyhooed
public benefits section of your monthly electric bill like mine,
how much are they going to stoften too this public benefits?
And didn't lamon even already say yeah, yeah, that's not cool.
I don't dig it. We gotta look into that. This

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is truly another only in Connecticut thing in the sense
that not only did it take us all a minute
to be like, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa? What is the
public benefits charged? What is that figured out? What that's
got to go, that's got to go, and only in Connecticut,
but not gonna We're actually going to put more in it.

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That's crazy, And how do you combat that? I want
to say, you know, I want to call for boycotts.
They're impossible, So Vin Candelaura, he released a statement along
with State Rep. Tracy Mara the House ranking member of

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the Energy and Technology Committee. This came out on Thursday
in response to a proposed final decision from the Public
Utilities Regulatory Regulatory Authority. For those of you you're like
where they hope to shake you off Docket number twenty
one nine DASH seventeen. Connecticut rate payers are once again

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being saddled with the cost of California style policies being
embraced by Lamont, who makes you miss the days when
he was pilfering from Massachusetts or another neighboring state. Why
anyone would want to copy anything going on in California

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outside of getting us an in and out Burger is
beyond me. It's the only thing I think I'm going
to copy California. Oh Lord, why would you do that? Well,
I'm opening in and out Burger. It's one of the
most brilliant things I've ever heard. That's it, the only
thing I can think of doing. Actually comes right out
and says a plan to fund electric charging stations for

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medium and heavy duty vehicles through monthly electric bills, and
according to this article, even more troubling, this plan directly
contradicts recent legislative efforts to protect ratepayers from policy driven
energy initiatives. In other words, something just put into effect

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by Democrats, by a democratic governor. This flies directly in
the face of living, breathing hypocrisy. Listen to these words.
It will shift a multi million dollar financial burden onto
household budgets. Think about that. That's criminal, man,