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I run a fracking company — New York banned the industry and stuck the poor with the bill

Natural gas is the lowest-hanging fruit New York has

By Dan Doyle Fox News

Published March 17, 2026 7:00am EDT

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New York is making its poorest residents pay for a political fantasy. The Cuomo administration banned shale fracking in 2014, bowing to the noise of "fracktivists." Hochul kept the ban and doubled down. The result: energy poverty for the people who can least afford it.

Twenty-six percent of New York City children live in poverty. Statewide, 2.7 million residents. Politicians respond with more taxation and finger-pointing at the Feds — but the real answer is........

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