Electric vehicles are not better for the environment, regardless of the electricity source. EVs do not solve any emissions problem, may make them worse, are also unreliable and ill-suited to a rural-urban climate, but Burlington, Vermont, is thinking, bribes!
Bribery. If we offer them someone else’s money to lower the purchase price, they’ll buy in. This from the hippie enclave where prostitution is legal, illegal aliens can vote, cops are the problem, and crime is rising. They want to do more to lower fossil fuel vehicle emissions by offshoring them to poor countries with no environmental controls.
No worries. No one in Burlington can see those emissions from there; as long as they can say they lowered their own, ta-da! So just take them at their word; convincing “high-consumption fuel users to switch to battery electric vehicles” is good for… something. Sure, the folks who sell the EVs but no one else.
Vermont has one of the highest electric rates in the country. EVs are cost-prohibitive even after piggybacking rebates at someone else’s expense. And unless you get a good one and a good charger, they take a while to “fill up.” The cold weather affects performance and battery life – and not in a good way. There’s no infrastructure in place to address increased demand or load. But if ya’ll buy and EV, maybe that’ll convince everyone else to let the city take even more o their money to address those issues after the face.
This is called leadership!
“We’re slowly getting people to understand that you can more cost-effectively reduce emissions from the transportation sector if your resources prioritize the highest mileage drivers,” said Rob Sargent, Coltura’s policy director.
And there is an added equity bonus, Sargent said, because a majority of these superusers (56%) are also below the median household income. Many of them are commuters forced to drive long distances because they can’t afford to live close to where they work, and end up spending a lot of their limited income on gas.
Did you get that? People least able to afford the unnecessary transition to EVs are the people they need in EVs. These are the folks hardest hit by Democrat-driven energy policy and inflation. People who need to drive farther and will need more time to charge so they don’t get stranded on snow-covered roads with no heat come winter.
