You’ve heard of Boston Strong. It was an inspiration in the weeks after the Boston Bombing but got tired after a few years from overuse. Well, I’m here to introduce you to something you’ll get tired of but can never escape. Vermont Stupid.
Not all Vermonters, or even the state, or its history, which was impressive until the radical Leftists took over. But there is stupid, and it burns. I’ve covered a few examples in the past, like adopting California’s climate standards, but this – and it is related to that – is an impressive display of ignorance, given other stated priorities.
Vermont is committed to not just a 100% Electric Vehicle future but electric heat as well. Electric everything. Have you ever been to Vermont? Despite 40 years of caterwauling about cataclysmic warming – the alleged reason for all this electrification – it gets damn cold there half the year. You’ll need heat: electric heat and lots of it. Plus cars, plus everything already sucking off the grid.
Vermont will need a lot more electricity to go all-electric as planned, but Vermont isn’t building nuclear energy plants or clean coal or adding more natural gas or hydro. Their future is wind and sunshine. Solar and wind farms. In a world where all their neighbors except New Hampshire think the same thing. The whole Northeast is blistering its lips on the same cruddy green global warming crack pipe.
The problem with wind and solar is that after almost as many decades, neither is efficient nor reliable, so you need lots of them everywhere you can find room. I made a joke last week about it when someone in Vermont recognized the 55th anniversary of banning roadside billboards. They clutter up the scenery, you see, except you won’t see because they can’t get near net zero without putting wind and solar farms all over the scenery.
And while that’s a great reason to start using the term Vermont Stupid, this elevates it to new levels. H.126 is a conservation bill whose goal is to conserve 50% of all the land in the state by 2050. Half of Vermont is to be classified as protected wilderness, on which, I surmise, you will be unable to place wind or solar farms. That leaves the other half to carry the wind and solar burden, and I don’t think that will work unless they have a plan to reduce the population, and legalized assisted suicide (which they have) isn’t going to cut it.
On top of that, Vermont Democrats are adding bodies (illegals) while whining about a housing shortage, all of which is added resource stress.
Vermont Stupid!
Vermont is not alone. We have stupid Democrats in New Hampshire scrabbling to ruin what’s left of our advantage because we are surrounded by states run by Dems, and they all think the same stupid way. We need more housing, but oh no, resource stress, and dammit, we must go all-electric. It’s not a good look because you must be stupid – or perhaps a kinder word is ignorant – to continue elevating these assh*les. Talk about assisted suicide!
And for the record, there are concerns about H.126, but this is not one of them.
So how does the state achieve its stated carbon reduction goals if half the land mass is off-limits and locked up as conservation land? As long as tax dollars get laundered into the hands of Climate Cult friends and family, who donate some to Left-Wing causes and candidates, they’ll keep trying. You are, after all, the carbon they are trying to reduce.
HT | WCAX