Gov. Kathy Hochul has hit new heights in utter hypocrisy, even for her. 

Her administration announced last week that, thanks to nuclear power tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act, New Yorkers might see cost savings in power starting in 2025. 

Good lord, where do we even start?

First, the Inflation Reduction Act itself is a massive culprit in making sure the price hikes — including for energy — harming average Americans stay with us, by dumping a flood of cash into politically favored sectors. 

For Hochul to pimp elements of what is perhaps President Joe Biden’s worst spending disaster as an overall cost-saver is beyond absurd. 

Closer to home, Hochul’s been champion Numero Uno of the state’s disastrous climate plan, with its literally impossible-to-fulfill demand that New York go 100% renewable by 2040, its insane embrace of wind and solar as the power sources of the future and its drive to close fossil-fuel electric plants (and stop new oil and gas pipelines). 

All that is already slamming New Yorkers right in the power bill, as rates get jacked up to pay for the costly projects the plan demands. 

The average Con Ed bill in Gotham is possibly set to double over the next two years. 

And those hikes come as experts predict blackouts, as the state foolishly forces current fossil-fuel generating capacity offline in favor of hoped-for renewable capacity. 

Adding to the hypocrisy, Empire State climate fanatics (who have Hochul’s ear on these issues) hate nuclear power. Even though it’s the only emissions-free source of energy that actually has a chance of fueling a green transition. 

They drove then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo into bullying the Indian Point nuclear plant to close, increasing the state’s reliance on fossil fuels and setting the stage for our current mess, under which taxpayers will be squeezed and squeezed until they’re dead broke. 

And the idea that tax credits (i.e. subsidies) are the answer here is beyond absurd: We create the conditions under which your power bills will inevitably rise to painful heights and throw you a tiny bone, also paid for with your own money. 

At best, Hochul’s happy talk on savings from nuke plants suggests she recognizes the political disaster that soaring electric rates and blackouts will be. 

But knowing better won’t move the gov to reverse course, face down the left and embrace sensible energy policies: She’s as spineless there as she is on policing and every other kitchen-table issue.