Oh, is your end of the boat not sinking? You're probably fine, then.
Luckily the referendum is being challenged in the courts.
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Quebec even wanted to finance EV charging stations throughout the state. All built and operated locally of course. I guess out-of-state and foreign big oil didn't like this.
Depressing. I guess there's a reason the state is poor...
Maine has the most unreliable power grid in the country, CMP is hated, and the lease was an (illegal) joke. $4,000 a year and no jobs.
You know what’s also bad for the environment, hundreds of thousands of Mainers powering their homes with diesel/propane generators for weeks every year because CMP and Versant are running the most unreliable power grid in the country.
My power is usually out for 4-6 weeks a year. My rooftop solar can cover my needs during the summer, but winter I have to use a propane generator
Burning whole tree chips for power at biomass plants is actually pretty big in Maine. Although most of that power was sold on to other New England states that had green energy credits, in the years I was involved.
LOL, good luck with that. Hard to think of more unpopular legislation. You might as well say "When the United Nations High command forces the U.S. to increase its gasoline taxes". I mean, come on, we are not some small nation that can be pushed around.
BTW, this is how the progressive movements always marginalize themselves and get kicked out of any political power. Instead of advocating for R&D and cheaper alternatives that improve people's quality of life, they can't help themselves but bring out the club of eco-masochism paired with tax-sadism.
I pay an extra 10 cents/litre for gasoline but get a cheque for most of $1000 every year. Pretty awesome deal for me and most Canadians.
People really like to hate on getting cheques in the mail.
But 80% of consumers are below average. The average is skewed by people with private jets, et cetera.
Personally, I'm probably above median and below average.
That’s part of the point of a carbon tax. You want people to alter their spending behaviour to consume things which pollutes less. It’s a potentially small impact on their quality of life now to protect them from a drastic impact to their quality of life later.
Of course, the main point remains making local production more viable by actually putting a price on the externalities of offshore production and encouraging research into greener mean of production by shifting the cost/gain ratio.
Now we can ask, why do the progressives constantly adopt this authoritarian messaging on issues, when they know it is a political loser? Or do they think it's a political winner?
It's a good question, and one that will make a lot of people uncomfortable.
But in any case, the United States has its own politics.
You mean like people in DC, which does not have a senator despite having more population, because of a certain political party?
>Now we can ask, why do the progressives constantly adopt this authoritarian messaging on issues, when they know it is a political loser? Or do they think it's a political winner?
The conservatives will deny reality for political purposes till its too late again, just like they did with covid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh4uS4f78o
>It's a good question, and one that will make a lot of people uncomfortable.
What? Is this more empty posturing?
Source?
Also, fighting climate needs a 'all of the above' strategy ASAP.
Increasing R&D and cheaper mean of producing green is the main goal of carbon tax. That’s probably the most effective way to do it and is market neutral. I fail to see what any of it has to do with the progressive movements.
With a carbon tax, researching greener way of producing goods has a direct impact on the final price of said goods. That’s make this research a competitive advantage. Without a carbon tax, the sole reason to do R&D focusing on emission is if you are going to get fined by crossing a line. That means that as soon as you are under the threshold doing research is a waste of money.
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