The administration of Gov. Phil Murphy and the Legislature controlled by Democrats have set clean energy goals for the people and businesses of New Jersey without a realistic sense of their cost.People and businesses will ultimately pay for the deals by state officials to force changes on New Jersey’s energy industries, and they have asked and then demanded information on what it will cost them.Murphy, legislators and the state Board of Public Utilities every step of the way have avoided cost information that would be a routine and most essential part of any business plan. They kicked the can down the road to a report by the Rutgers Center for Green Building.But when they got that report, they didn’t like it and suppressed it. Consumers, taxpayers and ratepayers were justified in assuming its estimates of their costs were outrageously high.
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