Letter to the Editor: Vote with your pocketbook, not your ideology

Published 2:00 pm Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Recently, in our humble but noble true working class, family oriented community, a resident asked on social media if anyone else’s power bill went up by more than $200.

Here is my response: Much of the cause is due to Washington State liberal irrational idealism and the climate change religion. The Climate Commitment Act and the Clean Energy Transformation Act.

These use a philosophical basis of coercing citizens to use alternate forms of energy.

In a healthy Market Economy (free economy) as alternative forms of energy become efficient, the market will willingly convert. Here, it is being forced on us, yes, the most polite term is forced; big socialist government, telling its citizens to change, by force of government surcharges, either directly to the citizens, (gas taxes) or to the utilities.

George Washington is quoted, “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

Forget “kings” for god’s sake, vote your pocketbook!

Jerome Loran

Carbonado