Commentary: Democrats Say Goodbye to Virginia’s Energy Independence
Heartland Author
March 17, 2022
By Collister Johnson, Jr.
Despite a recent vote in the Virginia House of Delegates by the entire Republican delegation in favor of repealing the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA), the Democratic-controlled Senate predictably chose to block that result.
During the hearing on HB 118, the bill sponsored by state Del. Nick Freitas (R-Culpeper) to repeal the VCEA, I testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor, contending that the VCEA was the “most radical, dangerous, and destructive energy legislation every enacted in the Commonwealth,”
By “dangerous” I meant that under the VCEA Virginia would be relinquishing its energy independence, that is, the ability to control its own energy destiny through the use of dispatchable, reliable natural gas and nuclear power, by replacing it with weather-dependent solar and wind.
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