The Way The New York Governor Thinks When It Comes To Energy -- February 18, 2017

Keep energy prices artificially high:

• ban fracking
• ban new pipelines
• shut down nuclear reactors
• ban coal
• "cap-and-trade"
• over-regulate the energy sector

Help the poor pay for artificially high-cost energy:

• expand subsidies for the poor using other people's money

Article here.

Whatever.

Back of the envelope (all assumptions except for one or two data points; use your own numbers if you want):

• population of NY state (2015): 20 million (wiki)
• 20 million / 1.5 people per household (assumption)
• 13 million households (calculator)
• Assume: 35% of households do not pay state taxes (another assumption) (after posting this, I thought it would be fun to google this -- result at this link; but I learned something new: New York City has an income tax, also; no wonder none of the San Antonio Spurs want to play for the New York Knicks)
• 0.65 x 13 = 9 million tax-paying households (calculator)
• total program benefits: $260 million (linked article)
• amounts to $30/year/household -- the upper income will pay a great share (calculator)
• so, we're talking about $12/year for an "average" household to pay for this program (comment)
• doesn't amount to a hill of beans and it keeps the folks with pitchforks off your doorstep (comment)