OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

Issue Position: On Energy

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2016
Issues: Oil and Gas Energy

* Government should encourage research, but not pick winners and losers

* Eliminate or reduce subsidies to programs such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RDDI) 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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