EVs offer stylish looks, jackrabbit starts, comfortable rides, juicy federal and state subsidies, and the motor fuel tax exemption. Their vulnerable point is the thousand-pound battery — which is toxic and developed using child-slave labor.
But groups such as the National Hydropower Association (NHA) have argued that the power source is essential to ensuring a carbon-free future. The group has described hydropower as a “climate solution.”
A recent Vermont legislative initiative purports to save the planet by “conserving” 50 percent of all Vermont territory for wildlife by 2050. This effort holds up for public display the foolish power-mongering implicit in all these “climate salvation” fantasies.
Part of your prescription for reducing Vermont’s carbon footprint is continued subsidies for electric cars. Over that last year, the average price of gasoline here has gone from $2.72 to $4.34/gallon. Isn’t that incentive enough?
A bill that would substantially increase the amount of state-protected lands was advanced through the Senate chamber last week and is now on to the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy.
“We are registering voters across the country who are tired of Biden’s Gas Hike!” the RNC said Monday on Twitter. “Coming to a gas station near you!”
H.606, an act relating to community resilience and biodiversity protection, passed in the State House of Representatives on March 15, 2022, by a vote of 98-42.
Convention of States Action along with The Trafalgar Group released new polling data that showed that 77.3% of surveyed American voters say that, “in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Biden should make increasing American energy production a priority.”
H.715, an act relating to the clean heat standard, passed in the State House of Representatives on March 16,2022, by a vote of 96-44.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), a group of 97 left wing lawmakers, urged President Joe Biden to declare a “climate emergency” and issue a series of bans on federal oil and gas leasing.
Biden implemented the policy — which determined there was a “social cost” of continued carbon, nitrous oxide and methane emissions — via executive action days after he was sworn in 14 months ago.
The Legislature is authorizing that an unelected body design and implement a program that will have major economic consequences while having no idea what it will cost, how, or even if it can work.