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Enemies of Both Sticker Tax Freedom and 91A

The HB649 House roll call numbers are in (HB649 ends mandatory passenger vehicle inspections). 355 (out of 400) reps voted, and 15 out of 183 Republicans went rogue.  Without further delay, let’s shame them now. As Chau Kelley would say, “There you have it, ladies and gentlemen.”  *The 8 two-time tax-loving Uniparty establishment Rs are … Read more

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Eliminate Vehicle Inspections in NH

This is your chance to finally put an end to passenger vehicle inspections in the Granite State once and for all. This is the year we have the state house numbers, but we still need your help. Email the entire House and urge them to vote YES on HB649.  You can now do this now using the … Read more

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Tax on Gas & Diesel Could Start at 26 Cents per Gallon

When it comes to the unaffordable climate change policies being pushed on Vermonters by the Democrat majority in the State House, the Clean Heat Standard for the home heating sector has received all the attention for the past couple of years, but heat only represents about 40 percent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. The … Read more

Making American Cars Affordable Again?

When the people who hate people take control, their policies always give them away. They make motor and heating fuel, water, food, electricity, rent, almost anything and everything more expensive – while insisting they are fighting for minorities and lower-income “families,” and the middle class – whom they hate most of all. They hate people, … Read more

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JR Hoell Wins Hands Down on Hands Free Law

If you missed it, sometime contributor and friend of GraniteGrok, JR Hoell (see also NHFC, Rebuild, and so on), was ticketed for violating New Hampshire’s wholly useless and likely dangerous hands-free law. Anyone driving can attest to the accuracy of that last sentence. A lot of people ignore it. Many create more serious hazards by trying … Read more

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The FAA Is Actually the FA FAFO A

Sixty-seven people are dead thanks to the Federal Aviation F-around and Find Out Administration (FAFAFOA). It is a problem that has been growing for over a decade of FAFO hiring policy decisions at the FAA and elsewhere that began during the Obama administration. First things first. The Associated Press reported Thursday that preliminary findings by … Read more

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The Dame and Data of US Air Traffic Control

The trouble with Air Traffic Control is much worse than anyone wants to admit. Whenever I see Pearson Vue linked to a government organization, I see threats to the security of the United States. Pearson Vue is not American, and Pearson’s former United States headquarters is not admirable. Regarding government spending, we should reconsider the … 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

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Are Vermonters Ready to Buy Cars in New Hampshire?

Vermont tied its increasingly rickety wagon to California’s air quality standards for motor vehicles. Advanced Clean Cars II (ACCII) “requires manufacturers to produce vehicles certified to increasingly more stringent emission categories, according to schedules based on vehicle fleet emission averages for each manufacturer.“ Vermont legislators handed authority over Vermonters to wingnuts in California and they … Read more

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Almost Ten Years Along and NH’s “Hands-Free” Law Has Been a Complete Failure

It has been nearly ten years since (then) Governor Maggie Hassan signed the hands-free law prohibiting motor vehicle operators from using handheld electronic devices. We were told it would reduce traffic fatalities (Death on the Highway!). I never believed it and suggested things would get worse. They did. New Hampshire reported 95 motor vehicle-related deaths … Read more

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Ford Backs Away From EVs … Just a Little Bit.

Electric vehicles aren’t going away just yet, but the industry has been having a rough year. Multiple manufacturers have scaled back production and retooled EV facilities for gas-powered vehicles or, like Ford, are shifting some capacity from EV-only to Gas Hybrid. The company said it won’t build fully electric three-row SUVs due to battery costs. … Read more

NH Gets 31 Million to Buy ‘Green’ School Buses

Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the Debt Machine, is all handshakes and smiles after milking future taxpayers for another 31 million dollars. Shaheen, who ran in 2008 opposing more debt, has added 25 trillion more during her tenure in the US Senate. What’s another 31 million at this point, eh? The rebates will help selectees purchase 110 … Read more

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The Bloated Cost of Car Registration Renewal

I am interested in knowing more about some money trails related to the cost of renewing my New Hampshire vehicle registration. With the price of a stamp jacked up a few cents last month, I’d like to know the costs compared to the current online processing fee they push (should a local vehicle owner want to … Read more

Are You Ready For Robotaxis?

San Francisco has deteriorated steadily under progressive policies that have seeded overdoses, homelessness, an exponential increase in crime, and plummeting housing prices. In the midst of San Fran’s Mad Max despair, innovator Zoox is planning to launch a fleet of shiny EV robotaxis to ferry citizens around the City by the Bay. The contrast between urban decay … Read more

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Do Cows or Cars Hurt the Planet More?

The slander of cows for their existential threat to humanity has focused on methane emissions, which allegedly warm the planet unsustainably. This dubious claim is premised on the sketchy logic that methane production negates any beneficial bovine ecological impacts (especially of urine and manure) and ignores the effects on the environment and food system if … Read more

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Is The Pivot From EVs Underway?

I was never likely to buy a Hybrid vehicle – too expensive -but if you put that idea in the perspective of an energy transition, that would have been the only way to begin. Transition suggests a phasing in or out. What we got instead was an all-electric Vehicle vanguard. Push combustion engine vehicles off … Read more

Progressive EV Mandates and Economic Reality

President Joe Biden advertised himself as a uniter of Americans but instead seems to have embarked on a crusade to unite government with industry. His disregard for the rule of law parallels an equally dangerous abandonment of fundamental free market principles via government fiat. The latest example is displayed in the administration’s emissions mandates for … Read more

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