NYC landlord switching to dirtier heating oil because of soaring Con Ed gas bill: 'I'm tapped out'

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 NYC landlord switching to dirtier heating oil because of soaring Con Ed gas bill: 'I'm tapped out'
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Residential-building owner John Norton blamed New York’s “green” mandates, which he said are forcing customers such as himself to abandon natural gas by making it more expensive.

Norton said he is buying a new $7,000 high-efficiency oil-hot-water boiler for at least one of his buildings to replace Con Ed-supplied gas. He said his bill could drop to $120 a month by paying $3 a gallon for home heating oil to fill his 40 gallon boiler.Congressman Ritchie Torres “Instead of protecting the people of New York from price-gouging, Governor Kathy Hochul and the Public Service Commission have enabled ConEd to prey upon the working class and middle class in an age of inflation.”

“This includes the work of our highly trained planners, operators, and crews, as well as safety projects like leak detection and main replacement, our first-in-the-nation gas detectors in homes, and various other technologies to ensure our customers have safe energy when you need it.

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