Lansing is Michigan’s capital city, with a population of about 113,000. Michigan has been a battleground state for several election cycles and this part of the nation is seen as a must-win for the next President. President Trump visited Potterville, a small town 15 miles southwest of Lansing, yesterday to win over the residents of the area.
Lansing itself votes reliably Democrat, yet its residents are highly discontent with the Biden-Harris economy and also the far-left green radicalism of many of its policies. Specifically, Lansing residents are up in arms about news this week of their sixth utility hike since 2018, a victim of both the never-ending Biden-Harris inflation affecting Americans nationwide but also far-left renewable mandates.
The local utility’s Director of Finance Scott Taylor blames ‘increases in operating costs’ to the City Council but residents digging through the budget notice major spending on various renewable energy scams in order to comply with a new Democrat law that requires irrational and unrealistic renewable energy goals.
State Democrats have required that utilities get 50% of their power from renewables by 2030, a decision that has already cost just the Lansing-area municipal utility $260 million to get their number to 21%, not even halfway. The renewable requirement was part of Public Act 235 passed in 2023, a law passed entirely with Democrat votes. […]
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