Virginia@: Your Energy Costs are Due to Rise. Here's What it Means for You.

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Your Energy Costs are Due to Rise. Here's What it Means for You.

Dear Friend,

You are invited to an important discussion on the planned increases in the cost of your home and automobile energy. Here's why it is important--

The Virginia energy economy is about to change radically. It will impact every business and family in Virginia. The Green New Deal is here, right in Virginia.

If plans adopted by the Democrats controlling state government are implemented, most of your electricity will soon come from miles and miles of solar panels and an offshore wind field larger than many of our cities. All your vehicles and all your homes will be all electric. The fossil fuels powering our economy today – mainly petroleum and natural gas and their byproducts – will fade until they disappear.

And all of this will cost each household hundreds and hundreds of dollars.

No one has done a better job of explaining how unsuccessful and counterproductive this effort is likely to be than environmentalist and author Michael Shellenberger, with his 2020 international best-seller “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Harms Us All.”

In a pre-recorded interview, Shellenberger examined the results of similar efforts around the country and the world, and has concluded that Virginia is moving in the wrong direction.

Here is one result he expects from a reliance on offshore wind:

Mike Shellenberger on the cost of Renewable Energy

And here are some of his thoughts on the push for electric cars:

Mike Shellenberger on why Electric Cars are not the future.

Shellenberger’s full discussion of where Virginia is going is the keynote address in a September 16 Virginia Energy Consumer Conference, sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, the Virginia Manufacturers Association and the Virginia Energy Consumers Trust. You can find the full information below. In-person space is limited, but you can join us for the streamed event by registering here.

These energy policies were adopted by the 2020 and 2021 General Assembly sessions, and there’s still time for the next Governor and next General Assembly to change the direction.