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by Bruce Roy
Let’s put Vermont’s position in the fossil fuel climate change discussion in perspective.
Vermont has the smallest carbon footprint of all the USA states, emitting about 0.1% of the USA’s CO2 emissions. Depending on the data source, the USA produces about 5-6 billion metric tons, Vermont produces 5-6 million tons per year. There are actually multiple coal burning electricity plants in the USA that individually produce up to 5X Vermont’s annual emissions! One single plant!
I’ll put that in visual terms. Imagine the total USA emissions is represented by the length of a football field, 100 yards, 300 feet. Vermont’s contribution to that is 1/3 of a foot! 4 whole inches!!! The width of one of the yard markers!!
The GWSA forced the passage of the Affordable Heat Act/Carbon tax in an attempt to meet unachievable reduction mandates. Recent studies and testimony have stated the AFA with its financial penalties is unmanageable and incredibly expensive. We’ve already spent millions of dollars on that ill conceived law. Even if AFA would be ultimately, incredibly successful, costing BILLIONS of dollars to Vermonters to remove ALL fossil fuel heating sources from Vermont, that 4 inches shrinks “all the way down” to 3 inches! 1” reduction! Not saving the planet by any means … and at what cost to Vermont families, especially low to middle income.
How much financial burden is 1 inch of emissions reduction worth to already struggling Vermonters?
How many lost, local small fuel distributors is it worth to save 1 inch? How many lawsuits, allowed by the GWSA and defended by taxpayer dollars, are worth 1 inch of CO2 reduction?
Who are these laws really benefiting?
The GWSA and the Affordable Heat Act are faulty and ineffective legislation. They MUST BE REPEALED.
Current stall tactics and political deflections are not with Governor Scott as some would like to claim, it’s with the Vermont General Assembly! Did the legislature not get the message from Vermont voters last fall?
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Categories: Commentary, Energy
CO2 is NOT the problem.
I beg to differ. We should greatly reduce the C02 in Montpelier.
Thanks Bruce!
Yes …….. more of the Dems/Progs/Marxists lack of common sense and/or critical thinking. Only ridiculous fear-mongering and earth worshipping!
Think about the fact that the earth revolves every 24 hours and the atmosphere with it.
Think about the size of the entirety of the earth which is 96,900,000 square miles with the State of Vermont covering only 9,614 square miles.
Why does the website of the Vermont Dept. of Forests, Parks and Recreation say that Vermont’s forests have removed more carbon dioxide than Vermonters have produced emissions since 1990?
This is a sham perpetrated on the citizens of Vermont by those that will profit from this . Follow the money .
It is all too true.
Let us also cancel Efficiency Vermont, and let every Vermonter use their own money where they desire. The idea that heat pumps and subsidized solar, or free light bulbs, made any sense on a cost benefit scale has to assume assets (monies) are unlimited.
FOLLOW THE MONEY.
I wish you would address the truth about C02, and the fraud of that danger.
Give us all your money and we’ll save the world.
This is the oldest marxist, oligarchy (here’s to you Bernie) con on the planet.
Meanwhile they have a $500,000 personal jet fee for flying around the country, consuming more than entire villages on their political and personal endeavors.
Propaganda is very strong in this state. Perhaps we need to bring science and God back into the picture, because these people are all about power and money,
It was and has always had NOTHING to do with the environment. And for those interested….here’s what’s behind the green mask, she’s awesome.
The mass blackout in Spain, Portugal and Southern France is being peddled as an “atmospheric event?” Okay. Not long before, Spain touted and bragged they ran power for 24 hours on renewables – now the country is plunged into darkness. Here’s your sign. Best be prepared – we’re next.
Cuba has rolling blackouts and water shortages regularly, it’s an easy way to control the population, surely.
Hey just think what they could do with smart meters, smart phones and smart cars!
Turn off your power individually, spy on you 24/7 along with controlling your bank account, and oops sorry about that car “accident”, must have been a software glitch.
Now compare and contrast with Cuban control, which is scarier? Oh, it’s all about the environment! Yeah right.
Puerto Rico too – a fraudulent monetary system lurching, puking, and crumbling under the weight of insurmountable debt. Someone has to pay to keep the lights on – someone will shut them off when debt is no longer an asset and credit is no where to be found. How does digital currency work in a black out?
Yes Melissa!
The Globalists want full control! They use division, death, destruction, lies and chaos to work at their goals! The earth-worshipers in the Vermont General Assembly are Globalist Tools!
As is their goal, “When we are in charge, you will own nothing and be happy!”
Carbon emissions, produce the machinery that measures it. Give us the actual recorded traceable data. What areas are the “producers”. I don’t want some jerk politician saying falsehoods about CE and tax people on crapology. It’s a back door policy to tax and make lives hard to financially function / survive.