Welcome to the three martini lunch.

Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three martini's coming up.

So glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the three martini lunch.

And Jim, I swear it when we're talking about New York Governor Kathy Hoco here, it's not a rerun. Yeah, last week we talked about how she was saying, gosh, we have so much less tax revenue coming in since all these people who went to lower no tax income states, they don't want to come back. But we need you to come back so we can tax you highly again and then pay for all the stuff we want to do. So a little bit of buyer's remorse there, especially since she said a few years ago that if you didn't agree with her New York values that you didn't belong there and you should leave, well, they did. You should move to Florida, she said. Yes, yes. And so they did. They took your advice, Governor. Well, now she's got another problem, and that is the soaring energy

bills that are not only happening now, but will happen big time if the climate agenda passed

in New York State back in, I think, 2019 she said, so back when Andrew Cuomo was still governor,

is allowed to persist. Now, we knew that these were unattainable goals. They are in California.

They are in New York. They are all over the place. But that never stopped Democrats from pursuing

their pie in the sky fantasies. But Kathy Hochle has now decided she wants to alter or modify or

maybe suspend the law because she's got a problem.

According to Politico, her budget director, Blake Washington, says that in order to achieve

the climate goals, they would need to probably add $1.90 to a gallon of gasoline and raise

costs for a family with heating oil and a gas vehicle by $3,000 annually. Well, that's not very

popular when you're running for re-election. And so Kathy Hockel stammered her way through this

statement recently. And this will make families have to endure impossible choices. I will not

stand by and let that happen. I believe that the goals of this law to build a clean energy future and strengthen our energy system for years to come is a noble one. I'm committed to it. But I also have to take responsibility to protect people from rising costs. If their path forward is only going to drive prices higher, then we have to act.

And that's why I'm calling on the legislature to work with me in the next few weeks before the

budget is due to come up with a common sense plan that it understands the realities that we're

dealing with today. This is not the world of 2019 as much as we wish it were when this law was first

past.

We will not walk away from our climate goals, but make sure that the path we're on is realistic

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