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by Guy Page
There’s nothing more unfair to poor Vermonters than Vermont energy laws and policies that force them to pay for expensive, subsidized energy-saving devices like heat pumps and electric cars, John Rodgers, GOP candidate for Lt. Governor, said on VDC-TV’s Friday at Four on August 30.
Rodgers, a Glover farmer and businessman and former state representative and senator, is running on the GOP ticket against incumbent Lt. Governor and Democrat David Zuckerman in the Nov. 5 general election.
Rodgers promised to become a more activist lieutenant governor, willing to introduce legislation sought by constituents and testify in committee hearings.
State laws passed after extensive lobbying by the renewable power industry require utilities to charge artificially-high, non-market rates for electricity created by renewable power companies. Some evenue from these high rates is then re-directed to carbon reduction measures, including heat pumps. Also, the State of Vermont via the Transportation Fund provides direct subsidies for the purchase of electric vehicles.
However, there is as yet no direct fuel tax assessed on electric vehicles for highway upkeep, as there is on gasoline/diesel powered vehicles.
Vermont’s pushing carbon reduction onto the backs of the poor needs to stop, Rodgers said.
“Poor people should not be subsidizing wealthy people’s solar panels,” John Rodgers said.
Rodgers also points to the apparent ‘pay to play’ nature of Vermont lawmaking. Big industrial renewable power developers are among the biggest political donors, “and they are all getting rich on those policies,” Rodgers said. “It’s not illegal, but it’s corrupt.”
Rodgers also noted that endemic crime, drug abuse and homelessness in Vermont’s urban cores is not only hurting the addicted and crime victims, it’s hurting businesses. He cites a friend of his who operates a Burlington business that relies on high volume of foot traffic.
“His business is off 20% because people have just stopped going downtown,” Rodgers said.
Rodgers also addressed the growing inability of native, working Vermonters to buy a home.
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When we try to solve an issue like poverty economically, we will always fail.
Its about compassionately caring for each other and providing what we need for one another…as individuals, families, churches and communities… locals first… then we will see pockets of sanity, health and happiness return to these verdant hills…
But until we get money out of HEALING (not medicine), and out of solving humanitarian issues by throwing money at the problem… or by shuffling off our neighbor’s distress and need to state… we will continue to have a growing disenfranchised populations whose values do not include a satanic system that demands human sacrifice… and that is what homeless people are: sacrifices because they/we are useless eaters, for blood, to Moloch…some voice inside those NIMBYs who prefer someone else deal with their poor and needy neighbors tells them: they don’t deserve my help; they have cooties; my fear is greater than their need; and my ability to help is something I worked for GDMT!!!
Recognize yourself anywhere in there?
John Rodgers interview: ‘You won’t see heat pumps on poor people’s houses, and I bet you won’t see a ” Tesla ” parked in the yard either, as most Vermonters are off working to pay the outrageous prices thanks to ” Bidenomics ” nationwide, and the
cost of living in Vermont, due to the progressive nonsense from what Vermont calls super majority…… The stupid majority is more like it !!
I believe in helping the homeless and down-and-out Vermonters, not the ” riff-raff ” that came here because of all the liberal handouts, go home we’ve had enough !!
What really ” PMO “, is these young panhandlers standing by a sign that says ” No Panhandling ” or a sign that says ” Hiring ” @ $20-$25 per hour,……. like really, try handing them something to eat, you’ll find it on the ground the next day, all the bleeding hearts are just ” suckers” …………………… wake up people !!!
Who voted the ‘supermajority’ in, that is wrecking the state.?
Sorry still not voting for him!!!! Maybe just because he is the only one our idiot Governor did endorse.
If King Philip, the Scott 1st Eunuch King of Castrati endorsed him I won’t vote for him either.
John Rodgers: I am not wealthy. I’m retired and living on a fixed income. Yet I have a heat pump and and very happy with it. It provides AC as well as heat. Yes, I need to have small LPG heaters at both ends of the house to supplement the heat pump in the winter simply because of my house’s floor plan. Yes, I got the heat pump on a GMP lease quite a few years ago. I have since bought out the lease and own the pump. Maintenance runs me about $200 a year. So what? My LPG usage is down significantly and electric bill is down quite a bit, too, due to conservation measures I have taken. PS: I still plan to vote for you. The so-called Democrats have made a mess of our state.
I would like to understand why everyone is ignoring that John Rodgers is a drug “farmer?” His “farm” grows and harvests Marijuana.
How is this morally acceptable? Because it’s legal in Vermont? Are we really willing to ignore what Marijuana does to the human brain, especially young developing brains?
The article says,”Rodgers also noted that endemic crime, drug abuse and homelessness in Vermont’s urban cores is not only hurting the addicted and crime victims, it’s hurting businesses.”
Let’s ask John Rodgers what part his Marijuana producing “farm” is playing in Vermont’s drug abuse problem?
I want to know if you get elected as Vermont’s Lieutenant Governor that you will be proactive in writing a bill that will ban geoengineering in Vermont immediately? Geoengineering is man made—cloud seeding, Chem trails to dim the sun. Aluminum particles in the atmosphere falling on farmland and in the water!!!Flooding caused by cloud seeding is not climate change but man made and needs to be banned like in other states as in Tennessee. It needs to be a priority too. Yes, everything else as in pushing heat pumps and increased taxes for heating fuel, gas, propane and electricity to pay for climate change is important to repeal but please enlighten the governor and ban geoengineering too. It’s unacceptable unnerving for Vermonters to deal with another flood every few months on top of everything else.