NJ.com regularly publishes editorials expressing the viewpoints of the organization’s leadership. This editorial was authored by Tony Dearing, director of news operations.

You open your electric bill one month, and it’s $66. You think, OK, not bad . But the very next month, that cost has skyrocketed to $340.

Yikes!!!!!

There’s nothing like electricity to put the shock in sticker shock.

Those numbers are no exaggeration. To the dollar, that’s the 415% increase our reporter Katie Kausch saw in her July bill from JCP&L. She cited her own experience in an article asking New Jerseyans what they think about the staggering jump in electrical costs. Spoiler alert: They’re mad as hell.

So angry, in fact, that this issue may decide the election for governor , depending on who voters decid

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