Hey NYC - Mayor De Blasio declares you must say goodbye to fossil fuels. Get ready to freeze your Virtue Signaling butts off.

>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio didn’t mince words on his government’s position on oil and natural gas in a 2020 State of the City speech Thursday, proclaiming that the metropolis must “say goodbye to fossil fuels.”

>Under a plan laid out by the de Blasio administration, the Big Apple would stop using all fossil fuels, including natural gas, in its “large building systems” by 2040, with government buildings the first to undergo the proposed overhaul.

>The city also plans to issue an executive order stopping new fossil fuel infrastructure, including pipelines, power plant expansions and import terminals.

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>“I know for a lot of us, and I was one of them, it was hard to take in the notion that we were just going to cancel everything that we've depended on for fossil fuels,” de Blasio said, according to a transcript of his address. “It kind of doesn't make sense when you first hear it, but it's something we have to do to survive. If we don't break this addiction to fossil fuels, it will break us. We have to overcome it.

>“And so, I'm announcing an executive order to end the creation of fossil fuel infrastructure in New York City once and for all.”

>The de Blasio administration’s plan is consistent with the New York State government’s well-documented antagonism toward fossil fuel development, a regulatory climate that has repeatedly stalled or thwarted efforts to build out pipeline infrastructure in a region that has tended to experience supply constraints and volatility during peak winter heating demand. …

https://www.naturalgasintel.com/articles/120989-new-york-city-to-end-all-new-fossil-fuel-infrastructure-including-natgas-pipes