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Climate Council Doubles Down on Carbon Taxes

While the question remains to be seen if a majority of elected legislators got the message on November 5th that Vermonters want nothing to do with home heating taxes or any other fees and charges that make life in our state more unaffordable than it already is, one entity assuredly did not get the message: the … Read more

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Ukraine! Ukraine! Ukraine!

One of the more amusing facts about the Ukraine war is that it has nothing to do with independence or democracy or stopping a renewed Soviet-era-like advance by Putin. It is about a US/Allied interest in natural resources. Energy, minerals. That’s right, left-wing rage-heads, it looks like you are supporting blood for oil, more or … Read more

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Ideologically Driven Electrification Mandates Make Life Unaffordable Too

Vermont’s unaffordability crisis is most visibly driven by high taxes that come directly out of our pockets: sky-high property taxes, above-average sales taxes, fees on our electric bills, the new payroll tax, etc. A “clean heat” surcharge on fuel bills would be easy to spot. But the mandates our legislators saddle local businesses with – … Read more

More Bad News for Unworkable Environmental Standard

Act 18, the Clean Heat Standard law, required the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to design the detailed rules for how the program’s carbon credit market would work in practice. That plan is due, and the PUC’s draft report indicates it doesn’t. Work that it. One main component of the PUC’s task is to determine who … Read more

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It Is Long Past Time To Change or End the Jones Act

The Jones Act “requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried on ships that have been constructed in the United States and that fly the U.S. flag, are owned by U.S. citizens, and are crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents.” It was passed over 100 years ago as part … Read more

Donald Trump Pledges to Halt Big Wind Subsidies

Donald Trump’s election victory is quickly taking the wind out of the Biden administration’s ambitious renewables initiatives. President-elect Trump promised to end federal subsidies for offshore wind projects on his first day in office. As with many of his campaign pledges, Americans wait to see whether he will deliver. Wind Turbines Fall in Popularity However, … Read more

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Renewable Mandates Will Double Energy Costs, Cause Rolling Blackouts

With New England state governments committed to reducing their carbon emissions at least 80% by 2050, residents and businesses can expect electricity rates to double, along with rolling blackouts, according to a new joint report completed by several of the region’s leading think tanks. The study concludes that weather dependent “renewable” energies — like wind … Read more

VDCTV – Election Consequences

Guy Page and Rob Roper talk Changes in Legislative leadership? Election consequences for Clean Heat Standard, property taxes, illegal immigrants.

The VT Red Wave Was Kevin Ellis’ Fault

I’m picking on Kevin here because he’s written two mostly ridiculous articles following the November 5 election lamenting how Donald Trump won a stunning victory nationally, and Vermont Republicans shattered the Democrats’ supermajorities in both chambers of the legislature, but he’s not alone. I would have let it go and allowed him and John Walters, … Read more

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Voters to Legislature: Enough Already!

The big question many pundits ask in the wake of the significant Republican pick-ups in the state house and senate is what they will do with their newfound numbers. Six pick-ups in the Vermont State Senate and what looks like around twenty in the house (there will be at least one contested outcome in Bennington-1 … Read more

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Nuclear Power Is Looking Good

Occasionally, divorced couples reconsider their decision to split up and remarry. The Western world, once enamored of atomic techno-wizardry and promises of cheap, limitless energy, embarked on a lengthy, passionate honeymoon with nuclear power plants. But frightening glimpses of calamities – such as Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima – led to a widespread disavowal … Read more

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Endangered Species vs. META AI

Big Tech is racing to be the first kid on the block with a super-powered AI engine. To get there from here, you need super-power, as in obscene amounts of electricity. AI is an energy hog, and the bigger the AI, the more power you need. Big Tech also panders to the green narrative, greenwashes, … Read more

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Biden Harris Energy Policy: Hatin’ On Poor People

Everything about the so-called push to electrify everything while replacing fossil fuels is a bad idea. The lower emissions monkeys are – first and foremost – doing the work in the wrong place. The emissions you are looking for are in Africa, Asia, India, and China, where a few weeks of hard work will get … Read more

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Urgent Time Sensitive Request To Stop

The Commission to Study Offshore Wind and Port Development is scheduled for Monday, October 28th, at 4:30 p.m. The meeting will occur at 222 International Drive, Suite 175, in Portsmouth, NH. Time is running out as the leases will be sold on October 29th. This is an urgent nonpartisan request. To show up, look at some of the problems … Read more

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Here Comes the Other Carbon Tax!

For good reason, there has been a lot of focus on the supermajority’s intention to implement a carbon tax on home heating fuels (oil, propane, kerosene, natural gas) in order to meet the greenhouse gas reduction mandates of their Global Warming Solutions Act. The big vote on the Unaffordable Heat Act is coming up right … Read more

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