To borrow from Forrest Gump, stupid is as stupid does, but that’s not all there is to say about California’s Vehicle emissions standards or why Vermont and Massachusetts (along with 15 other states) are poised to adopt them and an Electric Vehicle mandate.
Seventeen states with vehicle emission standards tied to rules established in California face weighty decisions on whether to follow that state’s strictest-in-the nation new rules that require all new cars, pickups and SUVs to be electric or hydrogen powered by 2035.
Powered by what?
California’s green energy dreams have forced them to tell the owners of the vehicles they’ve mandated not to charge them because there’s not enough electricity. In those parts of the state where it rarely gets cold, that’s less of a problem, but there aren’t enough electrons to run the Air Conditioning either. Not all of them. Not all at once.
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The wealthy and politically connected will be able to heat, cool, and charge their vehicles because they are responsible for setting policies that fracture access and comfort by class—an intriguing contradiction from the party that loathes the privilege of the rich.
And not for nothing but the New England grid is sorely wanting for infrastructure and output to handle the load now. When Massachusetts and Vermont mandate electric vehicles by 2035, it impacts New Hampshire because we share the grid. And not for nothing (again) but electric cars are even less reliable in the cold, and it gets frigid in New England. So cold that the Climate Cult had to add extreme cold and more snow to the list of things caused by warming.
And isn’t that a hoot and a half?
We can’t use fossil fuels, but we are to convert to electric vehicles we can’t charge that don’t work as well in the cold because warming causes cooling. And there is an entire political party with baggage train (of RINOs and “Moderates”) compelled to go along.
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These are the people who yell drought every April and May but scream “extreme weather” if it rains in August and September.
Stupid is as stupid does is not just the people in office promoting these policies. It is the voters who keep electing them into office or, more recently, citizens not doing enough to protect the integrity of the vote.
And no, I’ve not forgotten that EVs are not green, CO2 is not our enemy, and suffering their solutions won’t make any difference, even if you believe it should. But Vermont and Massachusetts tied themselves to the California standard, which will impact New Hampshire. We’ve done next-to-nothing to ensure GraniteStaters have heat in the winter and “fuel” for vehicles, no matter what that means.
Is the plan to wait? To add useless and unreliable wind and solar? To force ratepayers to swallow more price increases (as if 110% were not enough). To become more dependent on foreign suppliers.
Democrats in the New England States are hungry for the EV mandate, and if we do not find a way to respond, they will take the New Hampshire Advantage down with them because you can’t run much of anything without energy, and we are tied to them at the hip.
