Recent gubernatorial campaign proposals, that are being supported by members of the Legislature, regarding energy and freezing prices have raised legal, constitutional and affordability questions.

You don’t have to take our word for it. The Governor himself, whose policies have helped put us here, has questions:

And a fmr. BPU Commissioner was much more direct making clear that it cannot be it done unilaterally, no matter how much one may want:

There are more questions than answers about how it would work and if it is even possible.

• Is it legal?
• Do you need the Legislature?
• How would it work?
• What part of the bill are you freezing?
• How long would the freeze last?
• Are we freezing at the historically high rates?

The devil is in the details and the few details we have are very concerning. The simple fact is this: freezing does not create more in state baseload energy. Which means it’s just more hot air coming from people who want to move past the questions they are getting rather than trying to solve the problem.

Which leaves us to ask: if you are going to go through all the work to freeze rates at inflated prices, why not do the job to actually begin to solving energy problem that are leading to the need to freeze?