{"id":1500744,"date":"2022-06-02T08:14:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500744"},"modified":"2022-06-02T08:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:14:57","slug":"newt-gingrich-punishing-pennsylvania-liberating-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newt-gingrich-punishing-pennsylvania-liberating-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt Gingrich: Punishing Pennsylvania, Liberating Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnewt-gingrich-punishing-pennsylvania-liberating-virginia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500744&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin are moving their states in opposite directions.<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gingrich360.com\/newt-gingrich-feature-articles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span><strong>Newt Gingrich<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin are moving their states in opposite directions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Gov. Youngkin is focused on lowering the cost of living and improving Virginia\u2019s appeal as a place to do business. Boeing\u2019s recent announcement that it is moving from Illinois to Virginia is an example of his efforts. Youngkin\u2019s aggressive pro-jobs push led CNBC to call Virginia the No. 1 state in the country for business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As Youngkin said when announcing Boeing was coming to Virginia, \u201cFrom day one, our goal has been to make Virginia the best place to live, work, and raise a family.\u201d Youngkin appears to be meeting this goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">By contrast, Gov. Wolf has been making Pennsylvania more expensive to live in and less attractive to businesses seeking to invest and create jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Wolf\u2019s most recent attack on the Pennsylvania standard of living was an executive order to have the state join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). This Big Government Socialist left-wing regulatory regime is designed to reduce greenhouse gases \u2013 no matter what it costs the average citizen in higher prices and fewer jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The RGGI is a coalition of northeastern states that have joined in an economic suicide pact to make their economies less competitive, less desirable for job creation, and a lot more expensive for the people who still live there. New York alone has lost more than 1 million residents in the last decade as they move to lower cost, job-friendly states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This is the kind of anti-citizen, anti-consumer, anti-jobs psychology which is driving people out of the Northeast and toward Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and other less expensive and more practical states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Gov. Youngkin rescued Virginia from going down the job-killing, price-increasing northeastern model. He is orienting Virginia firmly to the Sunbelt job creation, consumer-friendly, lower cost model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The cost of Gov. Wolf\u2019s anti-fossil fuel initiative will be particularly expensive in Pennsylvania, which is the home of the Marcellus Shale (an enormous source for natural gas that has an estimated 400-year supply). In fact, Pennsylvania is the third largest producer of power in America. So, Gov. Wolf\u2019s executive order directly attacks one of his own state\u2019s greatest assets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Furthermore, according to \u201cScientific American,\u201d natural gas has largely replaced coal power in the state and \u201cgenerated 52 percent of Pennsylvania\u2019s power in 2020.\u201d This shift from coal to natural gas has meant a dramatic reduction in carbon loading of the atmosphere, but instead of accelerating Pennsylvania\u2019s production of natural gas Gov. Wolf is punishing it. In the process, he\u2019s also punishing Pennsylvanians who must pay their energy bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senatorgeneyaw.com\/2022\/03\/29\/independent-analysis-concludes-rggi-carbon-tax-could-increase-pennsylvania-electricity-rates-3-8x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Sens. Gene Yaw (R-23) and John Yudichak (I-14)<\/span><\/a>, \u201cthe Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) projects the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) could nearly quadruple new electricity costs for consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Wolf executive order will be a major issue in the fall campaign for governor. The Republican nominee, State Sen. Doug Mastriano, like virtually all the Pennsylvania Republican legislators, is deeply opposed to raising costs for Pennsylvanians and would repeal the Wolf executive order if elected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Democrat nominee for governor, current State Atty. Gen. Josh Shapiro, has been wavering on the executive order. His office approved the Wolf executive order but explained that it was only a technical approval of the language\u2019s legality \u2013 not a policy agreement. (What a tremendous show of political courage.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Shapiro is going to have a real dilemma. The more that average Pennsylvanians hear about the cost-increasing and job-killing nature of Wolf\u2019s executive order, the more they are going to oppose it. However, the left wing of the Democrat Party is deeply committed to regulating greenhouse gas \u2013 no matter the cost in jobs and prices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mastriano will clearly have an easier time following the Youngkin example toward lower costs and more jobs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n<h2 id=\"h-newt-s-latest-articles\">Newt\u2019s Latest Articles:<\/h2>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator alignwide\" \/>\n<h2 id=\"h-newt-s-latest-podcasts\">Newt\u2019s Latest Podcasts:<\/h2>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n<h2 id=\"h-pre-order-newt-s-latest-book\">Pre-<strong>Order Newt\u2019s Latest Book:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin are moving their states in opposite directions. by Newt Gingrich Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Virginia Gov. 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