Kasich’s reasoning for his vetoes falls under Orwellian logic, somewhere along the lines of “Ignorance is Strength.”
On December 27, 2016, Ohio Governor John Kasich
vetoed House Bill 554, an energy bill designed to ease state
restrictions on electric utilities. Currently, power companies in Ohio
must meet increasingly strict annual standards for investing in
renewable energy, such as solar, wind, etc., and for helping customers reduce energy use.
Environmental
special interest groups are ecstatic over Kasich’s energy bill veto.
They probably especially like the part where the state tells utility
companies they have to fund their own suicide by showing customers how
to use less of their services or products, a bad habit government is
increasingly applying across many industries. Nevertheless, Kasich
justified the veto by claiming it would have weakened the state's
clean-energy standards, which in turn would have hurt the state’s near
and long-term economic competitiveness.
The
energy bill veto was joined by Kasich’s veto of Senate Bill 329, a bill
that would have set up a process for lawmakers to regularly review
certain state agencies for possible elimination. Kasich said Senate Bill
329 needlessly duplicates an aspect of the budget process.
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