Vermont Governor Phil Scott (D – Registered as a Republican) has an announcement. He is appeasing the idiot Left by “joining 15 states and the District of Columbia in a push to electrify buses and trucks.” Electric shock therapy might be better because these vehicles are worse for emissions, not better.
Related: Report: Electric Vehicles Producing More CO2 than Gas Powered Transportation
Electric Vehicles are one of the biggest scams among a plethora of green policy schemes. But leftists and their moronic politicos continue to point to their embrace as a critical part of any zero-emissions strategy. This is so wrong-headed even radical leftist Michael Moore knows it is total BS. His latest film,
“…giddily eviscerates the electric car, revealing that what makes the rechargeable batteries in electric cars possible is none other than pure carbon (obtained from smelting coal) and that most of the grid power that charges those car batteries comes from burning fossil fuels. Again, this isn’t news if you’ve been paying attention. In the film, the revelation that coal powers most electric vehicles happens – embarrassingly – at the rollout of the Chevy Volt, GM’s first plug-in hybrid car. Curious journalists are then given a tour of a local solar field, during which the guide reveals that this football-field-sized solar facility produces enough electricity serve … eight customers.”
Yes, they are worse for the environment, but on a positive note, they cost a lot more. And that’s okay. While Vermonters will be paying more in taxes to finance these virtue-signaling, elitist, boutique products, the emissions are off-shored. The state government can claim to have hit their emissions targets because of the shift, but all they did was shift even higher emissions somewhere else.
Lucky for us more CO2 is not a driver of warming, or there’d be a reason to feel concerned, but that’s not part of the approved narrative which we can follow to California.
Fifteen states and Washington, DC have announced that they will follow California’s lead … The states that signed the agreement along with Washington, DC are: California, Connecticut, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.
Why now? Well, it’s ironic actually. Remember when a coalition of private interests, um – coalesced around the problem of New Hampshire being too white. Here’s are a few reminders if you missed that. One of the possible suggestions to attract more people of color was more social infrastructure.
Social infrastructure can be broadly defined as the construction and maintenance of facilities that support social services. Types of social infrastructure include healthcare (hospitals), education (schools and universities), public facilities (community housing and prisons) and transportation (railways and roads).
So, the solution to excessive demographic whiteness is bigger cities that attract more of the very thing that, according to the same people, is a driver of environmental injustice for people of color. Yes, commercial vehicles (public transportation and other vehicles that clutter up urban areas) disproportionately harm Black, Asian, and Latinx communities. Their words, not mine.
So, people of color are attracted to environmental injustice?
Well, that explains why all the lefties are pretending Electric Vehicles are better for the environment when they are not. And why Vermont, a place that is so left that the only time they move right is into New Hampshire to turn it into Vermont is interested in more environmental virtue signaling (as if politicians know of any other kind).
We don’t want to be Vermont, but our Democrats are loving it, and I’m not sure how much longer we can hold it back. If we should, for some reason, give Democrats the governor’s office and the legislature, we’ll be making Vermont look like the pro-liberty bastion of the North East, electric vehicles, and all.
How sad is that?
