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ROPER: New York’s Vermont-Clone “Climate Superfund” Shot Down by Obama Judge

September 8, 2026 Rob Roper

Vermont’s Big Oil shakedown should meet a similar fate. Another (BIG) one bites the dust. New York, like Vermont, passed a Climate Superfund law back in 2024 in hopes of making “Big Oil pay” for damage these doom-and-gloomers allege is caused by our burning fossil fuels to survive winter, do our jobs, transport ourselves from … Read more

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“Make Big Oil Pay!” Flounders

April 9, 2025 Rob Roper

While it’s true a majority of Vermonters love the hypothetical (and fantastical) notion of our little state saving the planet from climate change by going “net zero” or some such thing, it’s also true that an even larger majority has absolutely net zero interest in paying for (or living with) the programs designed to do … Read more

Who Made Vermont Use Fossil Fuels in the First Place?

July 16, 2024June 18, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Last week, I took Vermont Democrats to the rhetorical woodshed over a new law to charge fossil fuel companies for the cost of climate change. It was a fun ride but long-winded, so I published it on Substack.

Vermont’s Dumb (and Unconstitutional) Bill to Fine Big Oil for “Emissions”

July 16, 2024April 5, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The confidence artists doing business as Vermont’s Democratic majority legislature have crafted a bill it thinks will make Big Oil pay for environmental damage which it claims is the result of years of detrimental emissions.

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BIG Oil Cartoon Is Latest Example of Luckovich’s Propaganda

March 25, 2022 Steve Earle

Amazing how editors at The Laconia Daily Sun have been so selective about what conservative cartoons are printed while those of propagandist Mike Luckovich get printed routinely.

Ask A New Hampshire Democrat About Taxing The Rich

September 26, 2018September 23, 2012 Steve MacDonald

The distance between left wing rhetoric and reality is wide, particularly on the issue of taxing the rich. This classic bit of class war rhetoric is used to deflect any deeper inspection of the problem, and the flaws in the Democrat’s solution. And the flaws are huge. Immense. Enormous. Disqualifying in fact. So ask a New Hampshire Democrat about taxing the rich.