Massachusetts Energy Policy: High Costs, Low Honesty
Massachusetts residents are paying the price for failed energy policies, and now they’re being talked down to about it.
On Fox Business, PTF Founder and Executive Director Daniel Turner called out Governor Maura Healey for a recent video attempting to explain rising electricity costs. Massachusetts is already one of the most expensive states for electricity, yet instead of accountability, residents got a misleading lesson with Munchkin donuts.
Turner didn’t hold back, and he pointed out what was missing from this video: reality.
“This is offensive to voters to treat them like schoolchildren. What Maura Healey doesn’t tell people in the video is that she is also on video bragging about stopping fossil fuel pipelines, of LNG, that will come from Pennsylvania, the second largest LNG exporter in the country…she blocked those pipelines because of climate concerns, what she does not tell you is a few years ago she shut down the last of Massachusetts great coal plants that was 2000 megawatts, 1.5 million homes worth of electricity, she shut that down for climate change, they were not in her box of munchkins because they are inconvenient, then she has the gall look around a say electricity prices so high? This video is dumb, it is offensive and cringey, and shows the level of ineptitude of the team that crafted it and what they think of us.”
Now, as prices soar, state leaders are pointing fingers elsewhere while sticking to the same failed approach. Throughout the Northeast, lawmakers are pushing expensive wind and solar contracts that have been shown to increase prices. In some cases, states have agreed to pay several times above market rates for offshore wind energy, resulting in higher costs for families and businesses.
As Turner explained, this doesn’t occur in isolation. Europe has already demonstrated what happens when countries depend too much on intermittent energy sources: higher prices and less reliable grids. Yet Massachusetts continues on the same course.
The bottom line is simple: you can’t shut down dependable energy, block new supply, and expect prices to decrease.
And you definitely can’t treat voters like they won’t notice.
April 8, 2026