General Discussion

... specific proposals that enable those households to transition.

I lived in Westfield, NJ (NJ-7) a little south of Montclair (NJ-11) from 1990 to 2015.

In the late 2010's, we were seeking ways to transition from oil. We later learned that Christie had raided funds that had been set aside to facilitate transition from oil heat -- including funds for removing old oil tanks. No applications for assistance were approved for years. The extent of the misappropriation of funds didn't become clear until later. But in the corridor of towns along the Garden State Parkway, the number of households still using oil heat around 2015 was something like 30%. And oil was insanely expensive at that time.

The biggest barrier, and most expensive piece of the transition, is removing the old oil tank and doing any remediation for leaked oil. It can cost from a low of about $5000 to up to $100,000 for remediation.

Perhaps in the past 10 years there has been a massive transition, but I suspect not. Even if there is a relatively smaller number of households still on oil heat, I think Croft should have some sort of proposal for facilitating transition from oil -- with subsidies for oil tank removal and remediation -- if she is serious about changing constituent's lives.