We either learn how to use this new ChatGPT tool to become more productive or we get job-retraining and learn how to do carpentry, plumbing, car-repair, nursing or policing and become essential workers.
According to the Company’s Form 990, 2020 tax filing, parent company VEIC had revenues of about $121 million, assets of $42 million, 292 employees, and headquarters in Winooski, Vermont.
“He’s running,” tweeted Stephen L. Miller, a conservative commentator and editor at The Spectator, a sentiment that many media figures on the right echoed. “It significantly changes the GOP 2024 primary overnight,” wrote Philip Wegmann.
What happens then is a toss-up, and will decide whether S.5 becomes law or just the latest in a string of failed forced carbon emissions reduction bills.
Two large Quebec-owned utility corporations, regulated by a Public Utility Commission chaired by an outspoken climate activist, have quietly engineered a complex scheme that will make them and their owners more profitable — and you poorer.
Rep. Wayne Laroche summed up the situation perfectly: “There’s an agreement that Vermont is too small to impact global climate. So, we’re not going to have a benefit. But we’re going to spend money — forcing people to do things they may or may not want to do.
This is all not “hate speech.” This is the truth of where we are headed. If true Vermonters do not embolden themselves and stand up to this legislative lawlessness, there is no voice of the people.
From a planetary standpoint, a single one and a half gigawatt coal burning power plant with 80% capacity factor annually releases more carbon dioxide than everything in the state of Vermont transportation, heating, building, agriculture — everything.
In a 75 mph highway test, gas-powered vehicles tended to perform roughly 4% better than their stated fuel economy, while electric vehicles on average had a range 12.5% lower than their posted numbers, according to Car and Driver.
The Vermont House of Representatives on Thursday passed S.5, the clean heat standard bill, by a vote of 98-46. Every Republican present voted no. Only seven members listened to their constituents and broke with their parties to vote “no,” six Democrats and one Progressive.
Lee Zeldin spoke to the Chittenden County Republicans at a dinner in South Burlington Thursday night. Beforehand, Vermont Daily Chronicle asked him, “what can Vermont do to become a more Republican state?”
“S.5 will give people two options: pay significantly more in fuel costs or spend thousands of dollars to install electrical heating systems, when most don’t have the financial means to do either.”