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I’m in favor of doing this, but not in favor of the law. It’s stupid policy that’s going to invigorate the MAGA movement in New York. New York is dominated by
by Spooky23 4y ago
I’m in favor of doing this, but not in favor of the law. It’s stupid policy that’s going to invigorate the MAGA movement in New York.
New York is dominated by NYC metro for issues like this, and the people lobbying for these polices don’t know that Utica, Tupper Lake or Binghamton exist. This year there was a blizzard that pummeled the Buffalo region with several feet of snow. Some folks lost power for 3 weeks. What are people supposed to do without cooking gas, heat or hot water?
Heat pumps are getting better, but need supplementation with space heaters in the extreme cold of winter.
- RC_ITR 4y agoThe current governor is from the Buffalo metro area. Wrong time to make this claim.
- atdrummond 4y agoThe Governor’s city of record is pretty insignificant. The Albany powerbrokers are almost all from NYC and the surrounding communities and the moneyed interests are most certainly from the City. Given that is who she has to play ball with, it makes sense policies would reflect the biases of the city, not the Governor’s home city.
- RC_ITR 4y agoThen that’s just representative democracy at work? If the majority of people in New York are from NYC, then that’s who she must consider. I guess the trade is orchard park gets a new stadium.
- nonethewiser 4y ago_Representative_ democracy is very specifically NOT majority rule.
- RC_ITR 4y ago?? The majority of the people elect the majority of the representatives?
- Spooky23 4y agoYou don’t know anything about NY politics. Thats irrelevant. The previous governor was from NYC and Westchester, and shutdown the primary source of base-load electricity for that region. The plan here is that lots of solar farms will replace actual farms, which is deeply unpopular in rural areas and will kill the tax base, as localities won’t be able to set assessments independently. The other thing is to import more electricity from Hydro Quebec. (Which is a weird environmentalist play) I think heat pumps are great, and invested in one myself. But inflicting needless pain in millions of people is, like I said, bad public policy. And the counter reaction will roll this back and have a worse net impact on the State.
- RC_ITR 4y agoYou’re or supposed to comment like that on here. I’m from rural Upstate NY fwiw. What about you?
- vladgur 4y agoI’m in CA and the funny thing is that my gas furnace would not work without power that is used to run fans pushing heated air through the house. It’s a safety feature
- ghaff 4y agoMy gas (propane) cooktop works but you're not "supposed" to use it if power is out because it won't automatically reignite if the flame goes out. (Doesn't really matter as I have all sorts of camping backup I can use but I'm probably not supposed to use those indoors either.) I don't live in New York but I should probably get the propane fireplace insert I've been meaning to get before we ban it too.
- jhoechtl 4y agoYou can light the pilot flame with a match.
- ghaff 4y agoOf course (or a lighter). Which is what I do if my power is out. However, the safety instruction "supposed not to use" is because not everyone will keep their eye on the burner and may go off and do something else if something is simmering on the stove.
- cronix 4y agoYes, but the gas fireplace sure came in handy.
- nonethewiser 4y ago> I’m in favor of doing this, but not in favor of the law. It’s stupid policy that’s going to invigorate the MAGA movement in New York. It should invigorate a lot more than the 38% of New Yorkers that voted for Trump