This guy accomplished his goal. He got his name in the national press (AP).
This from a state that uses home heating oil and wood stoves to heat their homes.....What? Ben & Jerry bored these days?
Climate The Movie (The Real Truth): Martin Durkin Official.
Vermont advances bill requiring fossil fuel companies pay for damage caused by climate change, as fossil fuel companies pull out of Vermont, leaving motorists without gas & oil, trucks without diesel, & homes without heating oil.
Gas stations all closed, heating oil companies go out of business. This is truly a big environmental wacko win!
EVs everywhere, except all the nat gas and coal plants shuttered, leaving only wind and solar to power the gird. Blackouts lasting weeks or months. Most EVs stranded.
Another Big WIN!!!!!
The goose that lays the Golden eggs! Don’t have to prove any damage was actually caused by man’s co2, just claim it happened, arrest anyone that challenges the false claim, and then fine the snot out of every business around, and Ka-ching! Cash comes rolling in
“Global warming ruined my health” kKachina!
“Global warming ruined the paint on my house” ka-ching
“Global warming is causing people to get angry and lash out and hurt others” ka-ching!
Etc etc etc
Why not punish the consumers who have used fossil fuels to keep their kids warm in the winter? It would be easy enough for politicians to levy a direct tax on past fossil fuel users and use the police to enforce collections.
Consumers will bear the brunt of punishing legislation either way.
I guess the important thing is to collect as much revenue as possible without the theft being laid directly at the feet of the politicians; preserve the illusion that those bad people over there are responsible.
Other than the usual climate change garbage, hard not to notice that overused indescribable undefinable word, "fair share".
Vermont used to be a nice place to vacation, back in the mid-60s. It’s since turned into a major dem shithole.
Okay fine, now stop selling fuel in the state. I am sure that will make it all better for them.
"Vermont advances bill requiring fossil fuel companies pay for damage caused by climate change [??? emphasis added]"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Just as “follow the global warming lawsuit money” California cities evidently thought it prudent to not bother prospective investors about their politically correct climate problems (my wording), Virginia is probably trying to follow the climate dollars too imo.
From 2018:
"But ExxonMobil's attorneys did some legwork and found something interesting in municipal bond offerings of many of the same cities and counties suing them. Those offerings include several examples of climate change threats being downplayed or even completely ignored." —Big Oil throws California’s climate change hypocrisy back in its face (1.11.2018)"
If Virginia is trying to find new revenues, it needs to team up with “secessionist” Texas to do so by doing the following. Texas and Verment need to lead ALL the states to effectively “secede” from the unconstitutionally big, tax-hungry federal government by repealing the 16th (16A; direct taxes) and 17th (17A; popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A).
Consider the repealing of 16&17A as part of reparations for victim taxpayers of the unconstitutionally big federal government for having to pay a lifetime of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“ If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
I guess I’ll be buying my fuel in New Hampshire soon.
Say what? Delusional!
Prove Climate Change.
Just stop sending gas, diesel and heating oil to them. Let the learn first hand how important fossil fuel is.
Everybody in Vermont could pay the fossil fuel companies for each day that is warmer and they don't need as much energy to heat their houses, and any increase in farm production, because warmer days yield more hay and that means more milk from the dairy farms.
Same for the maple syrup industry, and the state of Vermont could pay the fossil fuel companies what would have been their savings on winter plowing and salting.
And as more people move to a warmer Vermont, the people who sell property should share their gains with the fossil fuel companies who improved the climate.
Whatever happened to “act of God”? That’s what insurance companies claim when a tree falls on your house, or lightning sets it on fire. Those are all weather-related damage.