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data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"455\" data-attachment-id=\"415974\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=415974\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-66.png?fit=1042%2C655&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1042,655\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-66.png?fit=723%2C455&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-66.png?resize=723%2C455&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"New York Governor Hochul speaking at a podium with 'MORE MONEY -&gt; YOUR POCKETS' displayed, with American and New York state flags in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-415974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-66.png?resize=1024%2C644&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-66.png?resize=300%2C189&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-66.png?resize=768%2C483&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-66.png?resize=640%2C402&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-66.png?w=1042&amp;ssl=1 1042w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Governor Hochul says the emission reduction regulations required by the Climate Act are infeasible and ruinously expensive. She has yet to explain this, so here is my simple assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The regulatory program has two very different mechanisms. First, they ration your fossil fuels. Then, they tax you heavily on the ration you get. The rationing is infeasible; the tax is ruinous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program is called \u201ccap and invest,\u201d which sounds good. Note the missing word: \u201ctax.\u201d You need the tax to get the money to \u201cinvest.\u201d An honest name is \u201ccap, tax, and spend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cap is the amount of each type of fossil fuel that can be sold to consumers during a given period. Permissions to sell this amount are called allowances and they cost money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is how the Cap and Invest website explains it. (There is almost no other information.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) are designing a program that sets an annual cap on the amount of greenhouse gas pollution that is permitted to be emitted in New York. Under the program, large-scale greenhouse gas emissions sources and distributors of heating and transportation fuels will be required to purchase or obtain allowances for the emissions associated with their activities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cap is the ration, and the allowances are the ration tickets that have to be bought. Note that for heating and transportation fuels the distributor, not the consumer, buys the allowances. Of course, these costs will be passed on to the consumers. We are mostly talking about gasoline and diesel for transportation, fuel oil for heating, and gas for heating and cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s just look at the cap. These fuels are all essential for living, which make rationing a very bad plan. The rationing cap has to quickly come down and a lot under the Climate Act. Statewide emissions have to come down by a whopping 30% by 2030, just four years away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fuel use may have to come down even more because other emissions cannot be reduced that much. New York has provided no information about this looming threat, and there is no time to implement new technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rationing by definition creates shortages, because it means people get less than they would otherwise use. Let\u2019s take home heating fuel oil as a simple case. About 20% of New York homes heat with fuel oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Say you live in one of these homes. Your fuel oil supplier has bought allowances for the coming year, and you get a share of that oil. But thanks to the cap, it is less than you burned keeping warm last year. How low will you have to turn your thermostat in order to get through the year on that much oil?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no way to know, because it depends on how cold it gets. If it is cold, you might run out of your allowed share in mid-December. Then what? The program is silent on this life-threatening question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, if it is a cold year, then most people might run out of heating oil in winter. Heck of a Christmas that would be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same is true for gas heat but at a much larger scale, since most New York buildings are heated with natural gas. 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