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Tom Evslin: Better learn to do carpentry with AI looming

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.

April 25, 2023 in Commentary.
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Keelan: It’s time to have Efficiency Vermont stand alone

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.

April 25, 2023 in Commentary.
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Tucker for President? Speculation mounts after Fox News exit

“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.

April 25, 2023 in U.S..
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If Scott vetoes climate change bill, what then?

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.

April 25, 2023 in TNR News.
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McClaughry: Pay attention to corporate climate profiteering

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.

April 24, 2023 in Commentary.
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Roper: Actions speak louder than words regarding clean heat standard costs

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.

April 24, 2023 in Commentary.
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Lee Zeldin to Vermonters: ‘Red waves are not created by telling everybody what we are against’

While he didn’t win the race for New York governor last fall, Lee Zelden is largely credited with helping multiple GOP federal and state candidates win in the Empire State, including four U.S. House members.

April 24, 2023 in TNR News.
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Lawmakers against revealing positions on green energy mandates

On Friday, members of the House Environment and Energy Committee voted 8-1 against an amendment that would have forced them to reveal their positions on home-heating energy policy mandates ahead of the 2024 general election.

April 24, 2023 in TNR News.
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Rep. Charles Wilson: The truth of where we are headed

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.

April 24, 2023 in Commentary.
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McClaughry: Chinese coal plants versus Vermont’s emissions

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.

April 24, 2023 in Commentary.
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EPA is massively overestimating ‘real world’ range of EVs, new report says

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.

April 24, 2023 in U.S..
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House passes passes S.5 by 98-46 vote — Who broke with their party?

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.

April 22, 2023 in TNR News.

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