OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

Issue Position: On Energy

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2018
Issues: Oil and Gas Energy Environment

* Government should encourage research, but not pick winners and losers
* Eliminate or reduce subsidies to programs such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS)
* Reduce the tariff on Net Metering to a tangible rate and support a way to replace it with a fairer method that doesn't tax ratepayers for solar they don't use
* Promote all forms of energy projects that do not unfairly infringe upon private and protected property and that will truly reduce costs to business, municipalities, and private residents.
* Promote legislative action to require more detailed transparency on electric bills, e.g. definitively listing cost of net metering, RGGI, and RPS as examples
* Oppose any effort to increase ethanol in gasoline to E15.


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