Paid for by tax payers so he can live off govt assistance and troll strangers all day.

By itself, it is. All the snark and “my 89 year old grandma with 2 broken legs shovels 3 miles with a kitchen spoon” (slight exaggeration for effect) isn’t helpful.

Sorry but the responses here are embarrassing. VTers pride themselves on being self-reliant, but that doesn’t need to be at the expense of someone else. We don’t know the full situation and we all had our first bad winter before.

If someone is asking for help, provide help, provide ideas, ask for more info, or shut the fuck up.

That’s what he means by wired

I think you think you’re making a case to stop using fossil fuels, but in reality you’re making a case to continue using fossil fuels.

You’ve just proven a farmer could never match the work of his tractor by hiring extra farm hands or using animals.

The same for moving goods, conveying people, etc.

The solution to problems isn’t to radically eliminate whole sectors of products or expect people to radically change how they operate, it’s to displace a shitty tech with a superior and greener one.

100 something years ago the impending doom crisis was we didn’t have anywhere to put all the horse shit, and if people kept buying horses at the rate they were, we were a decade away from every populated city being 6 feet deep in horse shit. Attempts to make people walk and stop using buggy’s didn’t go anywhere. The automobile was invented and the problem evaporated.

Crutches.

Yes, there is absolutely such thing as too little back pressure.