Ah, the heat’s on, you know.
SUMMERTIME
Traditionally when many New Jersey families would pack the kids up for a week – two if they were lucky – and head down to ‘The Shore‘ to enjoy scalding little feet off across broad, sandy beach before hitting the bathtub warm, sometimes brown water churning and washing up. It was still exotic fun to inlanders and cool enough to be refreshing.
You could hear the sizzle of bodies as shoulders deepened to crimson and little backs got burnt digging to China at the waterline.
Later, a dash into an air-conditioned rental cottage or motel room to be first to claim the bathroom out of the sticky, smelly scrum. There, you would scrape off remnants of sand glued to thick layers of either tanning lotion or sunblock, followed by a good post-shower spray of aloe vera to kill the pain, and stand in front of the A/C to finish drying off, cooling down as you let the chilled air rustle by you.
If there were a kitchenette, then an easy family meal might follow. More likely you’d be headed to a dockside ‘seafood’ restaurant – fried everything for the kiddos – a local, revered institution of renown and dive joint charm. Then off to the delights of whatever shabby boardwalk graced your seaside town.
Back to air-conditioned bliss hours later, sweaty, happy, and stuffed.
When you got home from your vacation, in the sticky, icky NJ summers, you almost always had a cooler house to come into, even when maybe it was only one or two window units working full blast to make it bearable.
My Daddy basically believed icicles should be dripping from the ceiling, both in his cockpit when he was flying his 1011 and when he was home.
In the New Jersey of my youth, it was only a question of how much abuse your system and body could take, never a question of whether there was enough power to have it turned on to begin with.
When one now sees yellowed, rat-like incisors flash in a rictus grin, it’s a warning on the face of verminous NJ governor Phil Murphy – not shared summertime contentment.
The rodential chief executive was proud to announce to state residents that he had successfully turned their once power-bountiful Garden State into a KOA primitive campground for their living pleasure. The downside of his plan being the state only has one allotted powerline from the pole by the road, but has booked too many 30-foot Winnebagos.
UNPLUG EVERYTHING, CLOSE THE BLINDS, STAY COOL!
As high temperatures continue across the state, we urge you to conserve energy where possible and stay cool:
🌡️ Set your A/C to 76-78 ° F
🪟 Keep blinds closed
🔌 Unplug electronics
🚫 Delay running heat-producing appliances until after 8:00 PM
🔦 Make a plan for power outages… pic.twitter.com/Xbnz1KlwYZ— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) June 24, 2025
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
Well…wait a goll darn second here, pilgrims. How did the formerly feisty and seasonally comfortable state come to such a sad, sorry, sleepless, and sweaty pass?
It’s Phil Murphy with better teeth https://t.co/SAAcX88hiE
— Kate🇺🇸 (@Kate_inNJ) June 22, 2025
Why, DIS GUY, that’s how.
I assume ratepayers in neighboring states will be forced to subsidize costs for New Jersey electrical users importing their electricity from distant places. Distance = cost, from the physics (Joule’s First Law, P = I²R)
— Edward the Texas Moran (@TexasMoran) June 20, 2025
The governor’s rate-increase razzle-dazzle will be biting New Jerseyans right before the November election. The 20% rate increase Murphy’s touted as having been ‘postponed’ was only delayed during the hottest, most expensive summer months so as not to piss voters off any more than they had to.
New Jersey residents were facing a 20% hike on energy bills this month, thanks to bad policymaking designed to force consumers into using 100% renewable energy. Some customers already pay over $500 a month. But the Board of Public Utilities is bailing out Trenton lawmakers by delaying the rate increase until Sept. 30.
While it’s easy to scapegoat the regional grid operator and artificial intelligence data centers for skyrocketing energy bills, the blame falls squarely on Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D-NJ) net-zero climate policies born out of his Energy Master Plan.
The Energy Master Plan, signed by Murphy in 2023, has NJ committed to being completely and renewably Green by 2035.
It’s not going so well when they can’t keep the power on or residents comfortable in *checks notes* 2025
Murphy has damn near single handedly engineered – with the help of a corrupt and compliant NJ state assembly – the almost complete teardown of the state’s entire reliable baseload power generation in pursuit of his Green grifting fever dreams.
New Jersey is in the grip of an escalating energy crisis, triggered initially by the closure of five coal-fired power plants and one nuclear facility since 2017, leaving the state grappling with dwindling in-state generation capacity and increasing reliance on imported electricity.
With those plants shut down, and the failed promise of Governor Phil Murphy to deliver reliable and affordable green energy alternatives, residents are staring down the barrel of a 20% energy hike this summer.
The shutdowns—spanning from Jersey City to Cape May County—represent a combined loss of more than 2,500 megawatts (MW) of capacity. The closures come amid a national push toward cleaner energy sources, but critics warn that New Jersey’s transition has outpaced its replacement infrastructure, raising concerns about grid stability, cost volatility, and energy independence.
Power plant numbers go down, temperatures go up, and available power and living standards go down.
Phil Murphy blocked the opening of 2 natural gas plants and delayed one more.
He is shutting down our last remaining nuclear plant and also closed 2 coal power plants. He even held a ceremony celebrating it.
Now he’s asking us to set our thermostats at 78 degrees! https://t.co/OC54v1RkR9 pic.twitter.com/jk72Yg0UGu
— Joe Colangelo (@Itsjoeco) June 24, 2025
It’s like a Democratic mathematics formula that they’ve yet to figure out.
Then again, maintaining or even elevating the living standards of their legal constituents has never been very high on Democrats’ list of priorities.
I mean, here’s the NJ Assembly right this minute (!), fixin’ to gift the offshore wind industry a cool hunnertmillion in tax credits while the people paying for the hunnertmillion (and subsequent rate hikes and power outages) are being asked to live in the warm dark like mushrooms by the guy who engineered their misery.
Today the Chris Emigholz from @NJBIA said this about A-5687: “Let’s be clear – this is not an ‘offshore wind bill’ and anyone who suggests so clearly hasn’t read it.”
Well, below is a picture of the language from the bill, so you be the judge. @njcoast_protect @saveLBIorg pic.twitter.com/RvVvhqdHep
— Assemblyman Bergen (@votebergen) June 25, 2025
New Jersey can sit there and seethe in the heat as the lights blink on and off until they go off for good, or they can start voting these grifters out.
November IS coming.
They just have to make it through 78° nights and do the laundry at midnight.
