Vermont’s Green Energy ‘Solution’ Becomes a White Elephant As Its EV Bus Fleet Fails in Unforeseen Winter

Prepare to be shocked, folks!

Another planet-saving environmental solution foisted on the populace by all-seeing bureaucrats has turned into an expensive failure. The latest boondoggle is playing out in the upper New England area, where once again the “experts” in all things ecological lacked logic.

A brand new fleet of EV buses, touted energetically last summer, has been brought to a halt in the frigid climes, frozen in place, if you will. This is all because the geniuses behind this globe-preserving mandate were incapable of divining that conditions in the area could quite possibly impact their harp seal-snuggling directives. The manufacturer, Green Mountain Transit of Montpelier, no less, did not anticipate this climate challenge.

It turns out the problem is twofold. The batteries that power these conveyances need temperatures above the 40-degree range to be charged, so naturally, these buses were deemed an ideal solution for the metropolitan region that can go months without cresting that lofty thermal bar. Additionally, these batteries have been found to pose a fire hazard, which could actually be both a problem and a solution in the tundra-like conditions.

As a result, the buses are now snow collection rigs in the parking lot, and the company is cutting routes and trimming schedules, a reality that runs contrary to the company’s tagline of “Getting you where you need to go!” It is just amazing to see a Vermont enterprise being rendered obsolete by Vermont weather.

It has been a common trait from these egghead enviro-activists that they do not possess the common trait found in many people less educated: forward thinking. It is becoming a rote experience that those who can confidently lecture us on what the climate will be a century down the road do not possess the foresight to ponder what may occur on a seasonal basis. These seers somehow know meteorological specifics generations out, but as far as divining what could transpire months down the road, that is an elusive detail.

So it is, the residents in Vermont are now lacking in commuter lines, because who could have guessed the state with an annual snowfall of 150 inches might get cold? But you see the brainpower at play with a company, located where snow-coated ski resorts abound, that calls itself Green Mountain.

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This echoes another self-created problem experienced years ago delivered by a similar group of eco-dunces. Some school districts in Minnesota mandated that their buses had to be switched to running on atlas-friendly bio-diesel. While some questions emerged from contrarians – people we describe as “sane" – the officials pushed their mandates on the school districts. There was no time to waste on things like feasibility studies! Not when ocean levels could rise by half a centimeter in 100 years!

Then winter rolled in, and the buses would not start. It was discovered that the cold temperatures affected the fantastical fuel in their fleets, in that bio-diesel tends to congeal. The buses were sitting there with tanks basically filled with Sterno; it makes for a good camping option to cook on, but as for getting the tykes to class, it is a no-go, quite literally.

The brilliant emergency solution was to either park the buses inside warehouses with the heat running all night, while the remaining ones had to be parked outside with the engines idling to keep the wondrous gas from turning to gel. So this new required fuel option, designed to save the planet, led to the need to burn twice as much, as well as consuming heating oil for the garages. Somewhere, baby penguin chicks were languishing due to cement-head decisions made by the inflated enviro-egos of these officials.

Part of me wants to sit back and just let these political hippies endure the problems of their own creation, but there exists a pre-pubescent reality with these fiascos – inevitably, we have to bail them out. Sure, it is one thing to let them marinate in their own quagmire, but they always end up needing tax dollars to remedy their failed science experiments.

Maybe we should deliver to them the studies on greenhouse emissions that result from operating the presses at the National Mint. Maybe then we could say, “Sorry, can’t cut checks for you folks – we are too worried about the impacts on the ozone.” Then they could all concoct a new solution for their city, while they are huddled for warmth around the glow of a battery fire.

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