{"id":61072,"date":"2025-09-29T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61072"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:52:19","slug":"how-you-vote-for-governor-in-virginia-will-have-major-impact-on-your-energy-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61072","title":{"rendered":"How You Vote For Governor In Virginia Will Have Major Impact On Your Energy Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 20, The Daily Signal<\/a> posted an article about the upcoming election for governor in Virginia.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Virginia governor candidate Abigail Spanberger<\/a> proved yet again she wants to make Virginians poor and financially struggling\u2014endorsing a terrible state law that is projected to increase energy costs by $3,500 per customer.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spanberger embraced the poorly-named \u201cVirginia Clean Economy Act,\u201d signed into law in 2020 under former Gov. Ralph Northam, which will ban oil and gas production in Virginia, mandating that both of our state\u2019s two utilities produce 100% renewable electricity by 2050.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This law is already having ruinous effects<\/a>: Energy prices are higher, and Virginia now imports 40%<\/a> of its electricity from out-of-state, up from 18% in 2020. The Act mandates Virginia transition from reliable power sources to expensive, unproven, unreliable \u201cgreen energy\u201d<\/a> that has been demonstrated to be notoriously incapable<\/a> of meeting the needed capacity for storage and distribution.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet no energy transition is happening in the Commonwealth of Virginia, despite the Virginia Clean Economy Act being law. As of June 2025, 87%<\/a> of Virginia\u2019s net-electricity generation is primarily derived from natural gas, nuclear, and coal. Renewables\u2014including solar and biomass\u2014only accounted for 14.3%.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

California<\/strong><\/a> and Germany are two energy case studies of what Spanberger wants to do to Virginia. Despite massive government spending and strict \u201cGreen Energy\u201d mandates, this state and country are failing to meet <\/a>their climate change goals<\/a>, all while expansively hiking<\/a> up energy prices<\/a>. This is an energy scarcity mindset that has no place in Virginia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

This especially hits poor and middle-class families, who spend a much bigger proportion of their family budget on energy. California and Germany\u2019s energy failure examples should be learned from\u2014not duplicated and expanded.While in Congress, Spanberger voted lockstep with then-President Joe Biden for trillions in inflationary spending\u2014including massive \u201cGreen Energy\u201d boondoggles\u2014that caused painful, generational inflation. She even bragged<\/a> about voting for the deceptively-named \u201cInflation Reduction Act\u201d in a January 2023 Fox News editorial. During the Biden-Harris administration, electricity prices soared 30%<\/a>\u2014largely due to the IRA passing. That\u2019s not something to brag about.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Virginia doesn\u2019t need to import Bidenomics to our beautiful Commonwealth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On November 4th, Virginia voters will decide whether or not they want to see their energy bills increase to an average of $1,770 with economists estimating costs peaking at $3,500 per customer by 2045.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On September 20, The Daily Signal posted an article about the upcoming election for governor in Virginia. The article reports: Virginia governor candidate Abigail Spanberger proved yet again she wants to make Virginians poor and financially struggling\u2014endorsing a terrible state … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14715,10397,18563,18562],"class_list":["post-61072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-energy-prices","tag-the-daily-signal","tag-virginia-clean-economy-act","tag-virginia-governor-candidate-abigail-spanberger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61073,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61072\/revisions\/61073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}