Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

Part of the reason Connecticut’s overtaxed residents are suffering from an affordability crisis is that they are also suffering from an energy shortage. If the supply of energy were sufficient to meet the demand for energy, the price of energy would be lower. All Connecticut legislators who have even a nodding understanding of the law of supply and demand – called a “law” because   economic laws are and should be both predictable and inescapable – should have known before they went gaga over a promising new and untested energy source, turbine windmills, that   energy affordability is directly related to all   Connecticut businesses.   If you don’t have sufficient energy production, all goods and services become more expensive, and if the assets of those who purchase the byproducts of energy -- all goods and services produced in the United States – do not increase commensurately, their affordability quotient will be reduced. To put it in the simplest terms possibl...