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.

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