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13 October
5:20 pm

Only about thirty percent of your payment actually goes for energy. The rest goes for taxes.

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Bruce Blakeman, at New York Governor General Election Debate (Spectrum News)

5:20 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific figure claiming only 30% of energy bills go to actual energy costs, with the remainder attributed to taxes — a verifiable claim about utility bill composition that could mislead voters about energy pricing
What we foundThe ~30% figure for energy supply is broadly accurate for New York utility bills, but the claim that the remaining 70% goes to 'taxes' is materially false — the bulk of that 70% is delivery and infrastructure costs, with actual taxes representing roughly 5–20% of the total bill depending on the measure used.
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