Imagine if we told you that we were going to take $2 in taxes from you. Then we would return $1 to you, but pay it out over 4 months in quarters. We then would expect you to be grateful and then give you the same $1 at the end of the year.

Instead of focusing on long term solutions like creating additional generation which is needed to solve the problem, that’s what we saw last week giving us this headline from NJ.com:

See that’s really the problem. There’s always a catch and that catch usually comes with a cost. And instead of finding solutions, we get quotes “It’s not perfect, there is no silver bullet here,” from the BPU president.

The fact is there is a silver bullet. It’s to not pass things that impede buliding new generation. It is building more reliable, non-intermittent base load generation. And it’s to stop making excuses for their failures.

Because even though other states and countries have been re-examing their energy policy for years now, that still remains something that New Jersey and the BPU are completely unwilling to do.