Abigail Spanberger’s Energy Agenda: Higher Bills, Rolling Blackouts
Virginia’s future if Abigail Spanberger becomes governor is dark – literally. Under Spanberger’s “Green New Deal” style energy policies, Virginia families would be left struggling under higher costs while facing rolling blackouts in a California-style progressive nightmare.
Spanberger has voiced support for expanding the Virginia Clean Economy Act, a reckless 2020 law passed by Democrats with little due diligence. That law requires massive solar development—so massive, in fact, that meeting its mandates would require land nearly four times the size of Washington, D.C. It’s also expected to cost Dominion customers more than $5 billion over the next 10 years, with rate hikes beginning this September.
Most alarmingly, the law’s mandates don’t align with energy demand. Peak usage often comes between 5–7 p.m.—when the sun is setting or already down, rendering solar useless.
Spanberger has also pledged to join a “Cap and Trade” carbon tax scheme if elected governor, telling a political science professor on a podcast last year that she supports the idea. These taxes would crush the economy and drive utility costs even higher.
In Congress, Spanberger voted in favor of gas car bans and against requiring the Department of Energy to consider affordability for low-income families when writing appliance standards. No matter what she says now, her voting record shows that she’s entirely on board with the radical left Green New Deal, and would work to bring that failed scheme here to Virginia.
Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, by contrast, supports an “all of the above” energy strategy to keep Virginia’s power cheap, reliable, and secure—not subject to rolling blackouts and progressive fantasies.
Virginia’s energy future is our economic future. The Youngkin-Sears administration has forcefully pushed back against radical left-wing schemes to leave our Commonwealth dependent on unreliable wind and solar while using the power of the government to unfairly target our most reliable energy producers. We need more of that over the next four years to continue to the historic economic progress we’ve seen under Republican leadership.
