‘Wyoming Should Cut Power To New York,’ Letter To Editor

A reader of the Cody Enterprise wrote a letter to the editor suggesting that Wyoming cut off New York State's energy supply, to teach them a lesson.

I read the article about New York state suing Wyoming and other energy producing states in the February 11 edition of the Cody Enterprise. After getting over my temper fit, I came up with a solution much easier than court battles and wasted money on lawyers.

All the energy producing states should NOT allow any oil, natural gas, coal or other sources of energy to be sold to New York and any other states condoning this stupidity.

New Yorkers will be cold in the winter, hot in the summer, dark at night and go back to foot power for transportation.

Let’s see how they enjoy living in the pioneer era. Good luck with that! (Neil R. Beisler, Cody).

We had the same story on the Wake Up Wyoming website. (Wyoming's only synciacted morning radio show).

That article is below.

Wyoming has joined twenty-one other states in a lawsuit against New York over a new law that would force energy producers to pay $75 billion into a fund to cover "climate change damage."

The states contend that the New York state law is unconstitutional.

West Virginia's Attorney General JB McCuskey led the coalition of states against New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act.

The law requires major fossil fuel companies to pay into the fund over the next quarter-century based on their past gas emissions.

How New York would enforce and collect that money is unclear.

“This lawsuit is to ensure that these misguided policies, being forced from one state onto the entire nation, will not lead America into the doldrums of an energy crisis, allowing China, India and Russia to overtake our energy independence,” McCuskey said in a release.

“This law is unconstitutional, and I am proud to lead this coalition of attorneys general and brave private energy companies and industry groups in our fight to protect against this overreach,” McCuskey added.

“If we allow New York to get away with this, it will only be a matter of time before other states follow suit – wrecking our nation’s power grid.”

If New York could actually collect the money it would not go toward anything "climate-related."

The lawsuit accuses New York state of trying to force energy producers and consumers in other states “to subsidize certain New York-based ‘infrastructure’ projects, such as a new sewer system in New York City.” (AP News)

States involved in the lawsuit are West Virginia, the states joining the lawsuit are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.