Senator Creigh Deeds joined Coy Barefoot in WINA’s studio for the August 31st edition of Charlottesville–Right Now. Deeds represents Bath County and parts of three Congressional districts.
Coy talks with Deeds about electric deregulation. Deeds is skeptical about how deregulation will affect rural areas, where he thinks there may not be enough people to attract competition. That may mean higher prices.
“There are some folks that talk to me that say they expect some of the northern Virginia utility rates, those served by the Northern Virginia rural co-op to go up as much as sixty percent over the next year,” says Deeds.
Other topics discussed include the price of gasoline, community colleges and the upcoming special session to deal with transportation issues.
“We have to develop a transportation plan that looks not only to new money, but we also have to continue to look at ways to reform VDOT, we have to look at ways to integrate land use into transportation planning, we’ve got to do things that over the long haul change the way we do business, but provide us a long term source of transportation funding.”