What does Mayor de Blasio have against poor people? They’d be the ones hit hardest if the Indian Point nuclear plant shut down — yet de Blasio doesn’t seem to care.

“We’d all love to see it closed as soon as possible,” the mayor said this month, while admitting the city would need a “realistic” plan to replace the lost power.

Where to begin?

De Blasio suggests “alternative energy” can make up for Indian Point electricity. But IP can pump out 2,000 megawatts of juice (enough for 2 million homes), supplying a quarter of the city’s power. If the mayor thinks wind, solar and other “alternative energy” can replace that, well — it’s more reason to doubt his claim he hasn’t smoked pot since college.

Plus, de Blasio wants to cut greenhouse gases.

Huh? Closing Indian Point (which throws off almost no such gases) and using more fossil-fuel-fired power (which does) would surely boost emissions. Even his own “One New York” plan calls for the city to back the “safe operation and relicensing of the Indian Point Energy Center.”

But here’s where his hypocrisy is thickest: Letting Indian Point continue to run is by far the cheapest option for the area’s power needs.

Shutting the plant will inarguably lead to higher electric bills — including for those least able to pay: i.e., the poor. Suck up to the anti-nuke crowd all you want, Mr. Mayor — but be honest about socking the poor.

De Blasio isn’t the only local pol pandering to the shut-Indian Point radicals. Just this month, Gov. Cuomo railed about the plant’s proximity to the city. “You do not [place] a nuclear plant in as dense a populated area [as] anywhere else on the globe,” he huffed.

Cuomo has said “repeatedly” he wants to close Indian Point, his energy czar, Richard Kauffman, noted recently. And the governor’s minions are at least bluffing toward that end.

At best, though, Team Cuomo can try to invent new legal doctrines and/or stretch facts to the breaking point to claim Indian Point isn’t complying with, say, state clean-water laws — but it’s not going to win in court.

Indian Point can’t and won’t close any time soon. Not only does the region need it, but the gov lacks the juice to close it unilaterally.

So call the pols’ vows to shut Indian Point what they truly are: nonsense. Any real attempt to close it would be an abuse of . . . power.