Vermont has locked in on the California Cobb up-the-backside Electric Vehicle/emissions reduction plan. By 2035 you won’t be able to buy or register a new gas-powered vehicle in the state. All new vehicles will be electric which is a problem for a host of reasons.
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You’re not cutting emissions. You are offshoring them. EVs are too expensive. Electricity is too expensive. And we’ll need a lot more power we don’t and won’t have (hello rationing!), but when Mitch Wertlieb was talking with Vermont Public climate and environment reporter Abagael Giles that never comes up.
Ignoring the “Green” Gorilla
Mitch and Abagael discuss where the Vermont rules come from (California) and how it will affect buying and registering a vehicle. Is there a market for EV’s, they wonder, and what are the incentives? It’s a quaint little chat, but no one asks or explains the disincentives like where all the electricity will come from or how the inevitable spike in price will crush lower and middle-class Vermonters, small businesses, farms, and the state economy.
Sorry, not just the Vermont State Economy.
As I noted here, New Hampshire is stuck on the same grid. If Massachusetts (another CA EV stooge-state) and Vermont mandate electric vehicles, the cost of electricity will have to rise exponentially, crushing us.
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There isn’t enough of it now, and this would escalate demand into terrorism no one, including Mitch and Abagael, wants to discuss. To put it into a simple picture, we’re being told to dive into a pool with no water, and no one cares that there’s no hose.
Why isn’t anyone asking that question? Where is this electricity coming from? Shouldn’t we answer that question and have a plan that adds up before we commit to mandating a product that can’t run without it?
Unlike US dollars, you can’t “print” electricity into existence. Even if wind and solar were not dirty, inefficient, and expensive, there is not enough surface area in New England or offshore to generate the electricity needed to feed current needs, and all the cars people will be expected to buy and drive.
And it’s not an insignificant problem. Without the electricity planned to scale, you are forcing manufacturers, dealers, and citizens to embrace something with a significant carbon footprint and a high risk of catastrophic failure that will cost more and do less. Maybe nothing.
The poster child for this dumpster fire has already told EV users not to charge their vehicles because there isn’t enough juice. And they’ve probably got more rooftop solar than nay state in the country, not to mention wind and solar farms.
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But that’s the Democrat party. Expensive and wasteful, the plan contradicts the stated goal, and failure is a feature. But it’s not just elected Democrats. New Hampshire will pay the price because Vermont and Massachusetts are all-in on planned failure, and as far as I can tell, the NH plan is to sit on our hands and watch it happen.
#NZD
