by Steve MacDonald
George Carlin used to tell jokes about his time in Catholic school and his smart-aleck interactions with The Church, like asking a priest if God is so powerful that he can create a rock so large that he himself can’t lift it. A similar situation has arisen closer to Earth. Vermont close.
In their pursuit of ineffable emissions goals, the Vermont Legislature has created an environmental standard so complex that no one knows how to implement it. Grokster Rob Roper explains.
The Clean Heat Standard (CHS), the “Rube Goldberg” carbon tax on home heating fuels, became law almost a year ago over the veto of Governor Scott. The Democrat/Progressive supermajority that passed the CHS did so without providing – or even considering in any significant detail – how it would work or what it would cost. Instead, they kicked that can into the laps of the Public Utilities Commission with the charge to just figure it all out – by September 2024 (fifteen months) for review before a legislative vote in January 2025.
So far, the only thing we’ve figured out is that this thing can’t be figured out. Certainly not by September 2024/January 2025 and probably not ever.
He proceeds to show us the receipts in support of the claim, which is simplified by the fact that the agencies tasked with achieving goals have not because the way the law is written, it can’t be done. This is progressive busybodying at its finest, and you’d be right to ask the next question.
How many emissions have been emitted not just during the drafting, deliberation, and passage of the Clean Heat Standard but also since trying to work out how it won’t work, starting with the fact that it creates a financial instrument (a carbon credit) the state would have to oversee and regulate (more government, more emissions).
“From the outset, you should treat the credit like a financial instrument if you want to see what happens when you don’t, look at the beginnings of the European Emissions Trading System ten or twelve years ago. It was a disaster. They are a financial instrument. They are basically the same as money, so you need to track them like that. There should be a single registry for credits, and they should all have unique identifiers…. And the final thing, I’d say, is there should be an annual review of market activity. It seems like overkill on day one, but it is really important to understand what is happening in the credit market to make sure that it’s being operated above board….”
Yeah, all that. And much more. Good luck hammering out the details of how to create, track, and regulate what is essentially a new crypto-currency during a three-hour Zoom meeting! This is not the fault of the TAG or the EAG, it’s the fault of the morons who passed this law with this time frame with this bureaucratic framework without doing anywhere near the due diligence necessary to determine if this were possible.
And Vermonters didn’t even want it. They don’t want to pay more to heat and cool their homes, but that’s what this does if they can figure out a way to make it work, which is not a bad thing. The longer it takes, the more time you have to replace them and get this repealed.
Author is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the Managing Editor and co-owner of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.
Categories: Commentary, State Government
Most Americans don’t want to keep funding foreign wars, but as of Saturday, April 20, 2024, the Ukranian flag was waving in the well of Congress again after giving away billions more of our money. It will create jobs says the Speaker. We heard that before – 20 years in Afganistan and we are rolling in prosperity arent we? How are those good paying climate jobs working out for the majority in Vermont? Our taxes and labor is theirs to do with what they want and are instructed to do by shadow figures no one knows or sees in the flesh. Can the picture become any clearer?
Soros is a Ukrainian Jew, dedicated to destroying America.
Mayorkas is a Jew who keeps the border flooded.
Schumer is a Ukranian Jew that denied a trial.
AG Garland is a Jew who thinks it’s all legal.
Our Representative Balint was selected by a $1,000,000. Ad program paid for with stolen money passed through Ukraine.
See how this works?
Bilant must me removed from office, ASAP.
Of course, Mr. Price. Ingenious. I think you’ve nailed it. How could we have been so blind as not to have seen this yet? The common denominator is that each of these bad actors is Jewish. And please let’s not forget Senator Sanders.
Might one way to nip this in the bud be to locate and round up all Jewish persons everywhere—starting right here in the US—build massive camps or compounds of some type to which they could all be relocated, and then on a large scale and in an efficient manner, simply eliminate them? Indeed, could this not solve all the evils presently threatening America?
In fact, there is a pharmaceutical company in the US, Danco Laboratories, which in an earlier iteration of itself several years ago manufactured a certain type of lethal gas which proved very effective. Perhaps we might enlist the experience and expertise of this firm in helping to carry out this kind of mitigation program.
Yes, Mr. Price, might we even refer to the brilliant endgame of where your thoughts could take us in such grand and hopeful terms as, for example, “The Final Solution to the Jewish Problem?”
How does it sound to you?