Kathy Hochul Exposed As Climate Change Hypocrite After Signing Fossil Fuels Bill Into Law
“It’s very wasteful, especially for an elected official. There is no reason why any elected official in New York should be taking a private jet.”
Democrats are hypocrites on pretty much everything, but it is on the issue of climate change where they particularly excel at their “rules for thee, but not for me” double standard.
At the end of 2024, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill into law that essentially forces fossil fuel companies to help pay for what Democrats feel are their contributions to so-called global warming – to the tune of $75 billion:
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Thursday signed a law that will require companies responsible for large amounts of planet-warming pollution to contribute to climate damage repair efforts.
Under the new state law, companies responsible for the bulk of emissions from 2000 to 2018 will be on the hook for some $3 billion a year over the next 25 years. The law is modeled after the federal Superfund law, which sticks the bill for pollution cleanup with the companies responsible for the pollution.
I’m fighting to protect New Yorkers who have faced billions of dollars in costs due to extreme weather. It’s time for large polluters to pay their fair share.⁰⁰Introducing the Climate Superfund: https://t.co/lU2pJ990mM
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) December 26, 2024
New: Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed the NY climate superfund bill, which will require fossil fuel companies to put up $75B.
Here’s the approval message. Sounds like there will be some yet-to-be-seen tweaks, but basic premise of the bill remains intact. pic.twitter.com/XdfXmyM40G
— Jon Campbell (@JonCampbellNY) December 26, 2024
It’s a law that some of her critics point out will directly have negative impacts on the wallets of New Yorkers, because the costs will be passed directly on to them:
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to fine energy companies billions of dollars for not complying with her radical Green New Deal agenda will *directly* impact Empire State families. pic.twitter.com/9GpERtdsHr
— American Energy Institute (@4AmericanEnergy) January 2, 2025
Not surprisingly, it didn’t take long for Hochul to be once again exposed as a massive hypocrite on the issue:
Gov. Hochul — who recently approved a controversial law that will force oil, natural-gas and coal companies to pony up $75 billion for carbon emissions allegedly contributing to global warming — has taken at least 30 flights aboard private jets since 2021, state Board of Elections records show.
The $415,000 tab was picked up by her campaign committee, records show.
“It’s very wasteful, especially for an elected official. There is no reason why any elected official in New York should be taking a private jet. Nearly everywhere in New York or upstate has a [commercial] airport that will take you anywhere in the country. New York is one of the most well-connected places on the planet,” said a local pilot experienced in private aviation.
The NY Post also pointed to what the typical fuel consumptions were for flying private versus commercial:
A commercial flight to California on a Boeing 737-800 consumes 850 gallons of jet fuel per hour, but would accommodate 166 passengers, coming out to just over five gallons per person. A medium-sized private jet with 10 seats would burn around 320 gallons of fuel per hour — or 32 gallons per person.
Previously, Hochul was criticized for hypocrisy over her gas stove phase-out plan:
Republican lawmakers are pushing back against New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to phase out gas stoves, calling her a “hypocrite” over past photos of her using gas ranges at her home in Buffalo and the governor’s mansion in Albany.
“The governor’s push to ban gas stoves appears to be as hypocritical as it is ridiculous,” Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay (R-Fulton) told The New York Post on Sunday. “One has to wonder how many times she’s fired up her own gas stove since declaring them environmentally unsafe in her State of the State Address.”
In any event, her private jet flight habits are something her critics are raking her over the coals in light of the new fossil fuels law:
.@KathyHochul loves fossil fuels. She flew to Rome for a climate change conference in May. She didn’t Skype- she’s not a poor. She’s special!
Remember when the @nypost exposed her private plane use in 2023? What was it this year, Gov?
Climate hypocrite.https://t.co/5sfDd5P2h3
— Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) December 28, 2024
New York Governor Kathy Hochul wants to combat extreme weather and pollution by taking private jet rides one at a time. https://t.co/3Fu6qvYUjy pic.twitter.com/vcB4mEdvtg
— Sam E. Antar (@SamAntar) December 26, 2024
Rules for thee but not for me:
“She’s taking a tough line on fossil fuels — except the ones she’s spewing.
Gov. Hochul — who recently approved a controversial law that will force oil, natural-gas and coal companies to pony up $75 billion for carbon emissions allegedly… pic.twitter.com/zigaq5aLpf— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) January 4, 2025
Flashback:
Are you fighting from your private jet? https://t.co/9sSMn7PRnD
— Amber (@amberlina2379) September 26, 2021
Perhaps she was able to figure out how to get electric vehicles to fly.
When it comes to fighting climate change and supporting clean transportation, we’re putting the pedal to the metal. pic.twitter.com/YH2URJvDTy
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) September 30, 2022
Yeah, I’m sure that was it.
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The first step in getting this super climate fund going will, of course, hiring thousands of bureaucrats to promulgate even more regulations to micro-manage the lives of the peasantry.
Yes, the “costs” of $3 billion per year for 25 years should be passed on directly to NY voters and businesses. They will benefit us all as an example of shining enlightenment.
A normal profit margin should also be assessed along with all additional costs of complying.
Not just “should be”, but will be. Any tax, fee or other government money grab from companies/corporations is immediately passed on to the consumers of the companies product(s) in the form of higher prices. This is an immutable law of nature and business. Businesses pay no taxes which aren’t paid for by their customers.
Personally I think it’s less about hypocrisy and more about idiocy. She has no idea what she’s talking about on this or any other of a number of issues (subway safety for instance). She’s a DEI hire that benefits from the fact that her predecessor stuffed COVID-infected patients into nursing homes, killing scores of elderly residents.
If I were in charge of an oil company doing business in New York, I’d seriously consider pulling out instead of bending a knee. New York won’t be the only state to try this madness and unless you stand your ground, you’re going to get more of it.
Or, as the left’s patron saint of organizing would say, make them live up to their own set of rules.
Costs due to extreme weather…
Weather is not climate they always say. Scientific illiterates with a mission.
They have models.
So does OnlyFans.
Time to John Galt these states. Make them live up to their ideals.
Don’t understand why fossil fuel suppliers are on the hook for the $75B./sarc It should be anyone who burned the fossil fuels. Also, don’t understand why the suppliers simply don’t pull out of NY State.
Yes. Could you imagine if the oil companies prioritized deliveries to New Jersey and cut deliveries to New York and California. Problem is much of he refining happens in blue states ( coastal states are easy to import crude by ship). Maybewith a new government in Canada we can discuss oil pipelines from North Slope Alaska to red state America and lessen the need for vulnerable tanker voyages. Take away Coastal State coercive power due to the vagaries of geography and frame it as a win for the environment so they have to accept it. Win Win.
How about making Canada pay for its contribution to lake effects snows in the Buffalo area due to Canada’s half ownership of Lake Erie??
But to Hochul’s insane and illegal global warming extortion bill, how did they actually calculate the cause, the damage, and the connection? I assume that there must be a little math in there somewhere.
This is what we get for having let these Global Warming loons think that anyone ever took them seriously, or that they shouldn’t have been shamed into obscurity from the start. You give them an inch and they steal 10 parsecs.
Hell, they’ll steal the whole Kessel Run.
The oil and gas companies should just compute the annual carbon load contained in all the fuel they sell to NYS, then announce they will be saving NY’s ecosystem by removing that much greenhouse gas annually.
And then just turn off the valves to the state.
“Perhaps she was able to figure out how to get electric vehicles to fly.”
Same way toy drones do it.
Plenty of room on the skin of a jet for thousands of little USB connectors.
Sure … That’s doable. And they have new 1000 outlet power strips to help. But if Hochul and the Dems did it they would all be mini-USB connectors and the electric planes would sit on the tarmac because no one could find them anywhere … Appeals to the public might eventually puke up 57 mini-USB connectors that people still had lying around.
Always the same, the average person must bear the costs for leftist climate policies b/c the political class and their big donor backers want to green wash their lifestyle.
Hochul is the democratist of democrats. Ignore the hypocrisy. How is she planning to personally profit from this law? Answer that question and you’ll have a better understanding of what’s going on.
Possible example: Before the law was proposed, or passed, or signed, did she sell her oil company stocks?
Of course she has a private jet. Do any of you really expect Her Majesty to ride in a commercial airliner with the common people?
The “State of Upstate’ should secede from the “State of New York City”.
The first synonym for “hypocrite” that is listed in Webster’s Thesaurus, is, “Dhimmi-crat.”
The Republican Party should be working to find a capable and appealing candidate for New York governor NOW.
Hochul is an unfortunate accident, lord Cuomo chose someone much dumber than himself so he’d never have to worry about the Lieutenant challenging him. We all know how that worked out.
Now, the governess one-upped Cuomo’s appropriation of the State helicopter with private jets, to take her from her ruined, failed city that has lost half it’s population in her lifetime.
The state’s dems have been driving out Republicans for decades, the old 50-50 balance between red upstate and blue cities is not so much any more. So she can do whatever she wants, no matter how stupid. No matter how much this law hurts citizens, she and her husband will do just fine. As someone said, check their financial transactions. They will be able to get even bigger jets before you know it.
Didn’t she used to be a medium brunette?
Has she finally succeeded in becoming a Hexenbiest?
There is no hypocrisy here. There is hierarchy, they are in charge and you are not.
Hoechul cares little about the environment. What she cares about is the massive hole in the states finances and a means to fill it.
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