Questioning our spending priorities
Editor, Times-Dispatch:
Gov. Youngkin is strangely quiet about Dominion’s $14.93 average rate hike to cover the increased cost of natural gas and coal — about five times the cost of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative that he seeks to overturn as an unnecessary expense.
But RGGI will actually reduce our dependence on fossil fuels by boosting investments in wind and solar. Unlike electricity powered by gas and oil, wind and solar energy costs are generally fixed because there are no fuel costs. At the same time, RGGI generates revenues used to address sea level rise and flooding and to invest in efficiency, lowering …