John McClaughry: Vermont’s electric vehicle future

Editor’s note: This commentary is by John McClaughry, the vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute.For the past 20 years Vermont state government has aggressively worked to get Vermonters to abandon internal combustion vehicles in favor of electric vehicles (EVs) of both hybrid and all-electric types. The favored method in those early years was to adopt California emission standards by requiring auto dealers to sell quotas of EVs.
The dealers resisted on the reasonable grounds that most