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Affordable Energy? Not After This Winter…And Election | Steve Haner

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Much of the electric and natural gas rate increases Virginians have been seeing—and will only continue to see increase after the recent storm—are due to the Clean Economy Act.   Gov. Abigail Spanberger “very much ran for election on those policies,” so the big question now is if she’ll do anything about the rate increases, said Steve Haner, a senior fellow for state and local tax policy at the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy.   “ People are about to get bills and, and it's going to shock them. And if you think the legislature's doing anything to make that cheaper, please lie down. You'll feel better. Because they're not. They're doing things that are going to make it more expensive.” Follow us on Instagram for EXCLUSIVE bonus content and the chance to be featured in our episodes: https://www.instagram.com/problematicwomen/   Connect with our hosts on socials!   Elise McCue X: https://x.com/intent/user?screen_name=EliseMcCue Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elisemccueofficial/   Virginia Allen: X: https://x.com/intent/user?screen_name=Virginia_Allen5 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/virginiaallenofficial/   Check out Top News in 10, hosted by The Daily Signal’s Tony Kinnett: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjMHBev3NsoUpc2Pzfk0n89cXWBqQltHY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, we've got Simon on the line. Simon, young people, they're just all a bit, a bit lazy, aren't they?

0:09.0

What are you for?

0:10.0

Welcome to McDonald's.

0:11.0

Have you get the six minutes, please?

0:12.0

Some say young people are work shy, but at McDonald's, we hired 47,000 of them last year.

0:19.0

How's your night?

0:20.0

Like George here, who keeps things running during a Friday rush.

0:25.1

Resilience, making it happen at McDonald's.

0:30.0

Setting down with us to talk about a great piece that he has written in, if you don't follow

0:34.9

Steve Hainer and just get an alert every time he publishes something new,

0:39.6

you should.

0:40.4

I'm not even sure if there's an app for that.

0:42.5

But Steve Hainer of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy joins us to talk a little bit about the piece that you can read.

0:50.9

I read it at Bacon's Rebellion.

0:57.5

The title of it is Fern versus Abigail,

1:05.3

and how the winter storm that we're still waiting to melt off completely has exposed at very least, I'm going to say it the nice way, but I think Steve is a little more concerned with what it shows about the governor's

1:13.7

promises regarding affordability, especially for our electric bills. Steve, thank you for

1:18.7

joining us. How are you doing, sir? I'm doing well. My wife just texted me. She ran out and said

1:23.7

this is flurrying outside in Richmond again this morning. So here we go. Maybe just a little

1:29.4

flurry. That's when, you know, what was the Pink Panther movies? Whenever Inspector Cluzzo's name

1:37.3

got mentioned, the inspector's eye started twitching. Cluzo, Cluzzo. It's snow, more snow, and our eyes start twitching again from it, Steve.

1:49.6

People are going to open up their electric bills, people are going to open up their natural gas bills in the next couple of weeks, and they're going to be stunned.

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