Political Quotes

“I thank everyone here today for all their hard work and leadership. One of the things that the President said last night is he is doing so much to lower energy costs through drill, baby, drill and through all of the other actions he has taken. I think on the campaign he said he was going to lower energy prices by 50 percent. Yet, last year, Americans paid more than 13 percent for their electricity bills compared to the previous year. The big reason is that the big, ugly bill added about $250 billion to Americans' energy bills by picking energy favorites and slowing down new technology, so energy prices continue to rise for Americans. In Virginia, we are facing an additional 9 percent increase in energy costs this year, and data centers are a big part of that. They consume about 25 percent of the energy and could be more soon. Last year, more than $4.3 billion in transmission infrastructure costs for data centers were passed on to ratepayers.”