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Kane County Republican Chairman Andro Lerario said supporters of
the Illinois county’s climate plan wouldn’t say how much it will
cost taxpayers.
“They do not have an answer for that. They literally can’t tell
you what the costs are going to be, because of the vagueness of
it,” Lerario said.
The board’s vote to approve the plan was 13-9, with bipartisan
opposition.
According to a statement in the Climate Action Plan, it does not
mandate changes that will impact local businesses or residents.
Lerario said that climate mandates, if enacted, will cost
business owners a ton of money.
“Imagine being in a snow plow business and all your trucks have
to run electric. What happened last winter with electric
vehicles? They were dying and getting stranded. The charges were
lasting ten, fifteen minutes,” Lerario said.
The 144-page plan includes statistics that may be misleading,
Lerario said, by pointing to temperature data over 30 years.
“What happened 50 years ago? What was it a hundred years ago? If
you’re going to do it, do it the right way. Get the true
comparisons,” Lerario said.
Lerario said Kane County has some of the cleanest air and water
around.
“You want to compare Kane County getting an air quality of 15,
which is excellent, to somewhere in India where they’re getting
88, or in China,” Lerario said.
According to the Climate Plan statement, implementation of the
plan is voluntary. Lerario said that the way to do climate
controls is common sense.
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