The MassGOP is launching a blistering assault in opposition to Democratic gubernatorial nominee Maura Healey over heating prices as winter quick approaches.
The radio and TV spot rolling out this coming week hits as pure fuel costs stay risky and OPEC+ and its allies simply introduced they’re chopping manufacturing.
The concern over gasoline is behind the advert backing Republican Geoff Diehl who’s attempting to realize floor on Healey in time for the Nov. 8 election.
“The Russians aren’t the problem, COVID’s not the cause, big fossil fuel — whatever that is — isn’t responsible,” the MassGOP advert begins, “the real reason … you’re headed for an expensive winter trying to heat your home is the policies of Democrats and Maura Healey.”
The video clip then cuts to Healey, now the state Attorney General, saying “remember I stopped two (natural) gas pipelines from coming into this state.”
The advert, in a dig, says: “Maybe you can remember that when you’re putting on a second sweater or breaking out an extra blanket.”
A spokesperson for the Healey marketing campaign fired again Friday saying: “If you want Donald Trump’s failed energy policies, then Geoff Diehl is your candidate. No amount of desperate, false attack ads can hide that fact.”
Healey’s marketing campaign added a research the AG commissioned earlier than the pandemic discovered that rising vitality effectivity would save customers $146 million per yr by means of 2030.
One knowledgeable commenting on the gasoline market — not the political local weather — stated this week costs and extreme climate could possibly be the actual double-whammy for customers this winter. He added authorities insurance policies additionally play a job.
“As we make a transition to cleaner energy sources, I hope government policies don’t tip the scale to one source over another,” stated Michael Stivala, Suburban Propane president and CEO. “You hear a lot about electricity, but that assumes a lot.”
He’s backing an “all above strategy” that features propane and hydrogen.
China, Russia and Europe are all in play this winter because the world competes for strained vitality sources.
The determination by OPEC+ to chop 2 million barrels a day beginning subsequent month comes because the Western allies try to cap the oil cash flowing into Moscow’s battle chest after it invaded Ukraine, the Associated Press experiences.
Polls present Republicans see a path towards management of Congress by specializing in inflation and immigration, CNBC experiences. A survey final month, the positioning added, confirmed 82% of Americans ranked inflation as a particularly or essential concern, abortion and the coronavirus pandemic got here in subsequent — however effectively behind.
We’ll know extra about how voters really feel come Election Day.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”