Posted on 04/25/2025 4:02:59 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BURLINGTON, Vt. - Vermont’s consumers are not buying electric vehicles as fast as the state’s rules require, according to data collected by the Vermont Vehicle Distributors Association.
“We’re between a rock and a hard place, quite frankly,” says Vermont Vehicle and Automotive Distributors Association representative, Matt Cota
To meet goals in Vermont’s Global Warming Solutions Act, the Agency of Natural Resources set standards for the number of electric vehicles that should be on the road by 2035.
“We’re showing exponential growth, but we’re not showing the type of growth as required by law. The law requires 35%, we’re only at 12%” Cota adds.
It’s a similar situation for trucks. According to Lieutenant Governor John Rodgers, there’s even less demand from small businesses to switch to electric.
“Why make them buy something that they can’t afford that won’t do the job? They’ll put Vermont businesses out of business,” says Lieutenant Governor John Rodgers:
Some dealerships and distributors are asking the governor to repeal the rules, or for the legislature to pass laws to delay or get rid of them.
Environmentalists say the auto association and manufacturers are running this campaign to skirt their role in stopping climate change.
“All these misdirections by the automobile dealers association and the fossil fuel industry it’s just a smoke screen for them delaying responsibility,” says Robb Kidd of the Sierra Club.
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This is a telling statement.
Dumbassery!
I am from NH. I venture into VT occasionally to ski there in the winter.
VT is a beautiful state that has been ruined by liberalism.
Which happened after all the hippies moved there during the 1960s from NYC. People like Ben & Jerry.
The problem is that it is still a very rural state. There are more cows than people. The wealthy people that own the big ski companies are all from out of state. They employ people seasonally. Then in the summer those people have to find other jobs. There are thousands of ski bums. They ski a 100 days a year. Which means they do not have a real job.
The bed and breakfast Inns are all owned by ex Wall Street types. Who went from trading stocks and bonds to making pancakes. Every B&B in VT I have ever stayed in was a former Wall Street trader.
The dairy farmers are still conservative. They are the ones with TAKE BACK VT on their barns. The Amish are also moving into VT and buying farms. I noticed several up in the Northeast Kingdom in March on the way to Jay Peak ski area.
The big fancy houses in VT are all vacation homes of people from NY, MA, CT, etc. Same with all the condos at all the ski areas.
Then you have Burlington. A once beautiful college town on the lake. It has turned into an open drug den. The only time it gets cleaned up is parents weekend at UVM.
My son considered a PHD program there right up until he visited. Drug addicts were everywhere. Not just pot heads.
Serious heroin addicts all over downtown. Burlington is the most populated small city in the state. However, because it is a college town, it is full of liberals.
VT is primarily a tourist and farming economy. Most of it jobs are not good paying and seasonal. So, there are a lot of poor people looking for a handout.
so they can’t sell any cars until they sell EVs ? LOL
The issue is that pick up truck sales probably make up a large percentage of vehicle sales in VT. Plus, Subaru Outbacks are also pretty popular with the LGBTQ+XYZ crowd.
VT is a very mountainous state. The Green Mountains go right up the middle. In between there are streams and rivers. There are also a lot of unpaved roads. The roads are generally not very straight. There is only a couple interstates generally going north and south. There are no east/west interstates.
Plus it snows a lot in some places in the winter.
Jay Peak ski area up on the Quebec border is open right now.
One of the last few ski areas open in the USA.
So, EV’s with these stupid LOW PROFILE tires they put on all vehicles these days(not just EVs) are really NOT practical in a mountainous state where MUD SEASON is a real thing.
Who pays the $20,000/car if the goals aren’t met? Is the State going to nick the dealers for vehicles available for sale that people just don’t want?
For those who have not seen it—here is a list of EPA grants in 2024—a horror show of funding every leftist “NGO” under the sun:
They then used the money to lobby for environmental regulations that crush businesses and consumers who paid the taxes that funded them!
(Oh yeah—and their executives took a healthy cut for themselves—virtue signaling is no fun unless you get rich doing it.)
Good point—and then there are the Vermont winters with very cold temperatures.
EV battery performance and range plummets under those conditions.
cold and snow is holding people back
WHY NOT 100%?
GO INTO THE CAN SOONER
Maybe a different kind of climate. It gets really cold and a long winter in VT. Those electric thingies with tires don’t work well when it’s cold outside.
If they have to have a quota to sell EVs, then it must be a loser. Good. That’s as it should be.
This is in addition to federal and state tax incentives and they still can't meet their targets.
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