When kicking off the boondoggle “Green New Deal” project, one Biden climate advisor described it as “the Biden climate strategy on wheels.” True, that.
Posted by Leslie Eastman
Using the 2022 “Inflation Reduction Act” as cover for the progressive “Green New Deal,” the Biden administration funded a plan that aimed to eliminate gasoline-powered delivery trucks and deploy tens of thousands of battery-electric mail trucks by 2028.
And, like so many initiatives linked to Biden, it ended in complete failure. Republicans in Congress are working to claw-back the remaining monies.
The nearly $10 billion project — which called for more than 35,000 battery-powered US Postal Service (USPS) vehicles to be completed by September 2028 — was funded in part by $3 billion in funding from former President Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
As of this month, the project is well behind schedule despite taxpayers forking over $1.7 billion — prompting Capitol Hill Republicans to try to rescind the remaining nearly $1.3 billion earmarked from the IRA.
“Biden’s multi-billion-dollar EV fleet for the USPS is lost in the mail and more than $1 billion is postmarked to order more,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) told The Post.
“I am working to cancel the order and return the money to the sender, the American people. The rescissions package is a great start, but Congress must keep its foot on the pedal and make DOGE a lifestyle by stamping out waste like this on a regular basis.”
When kicking off the project that was supposed to generate a fleet of over 60,000 electric delivery trucks, one Biden climate advisor described it as “the Biden climate strategy on wheels.”
The post office said it is spending nearly $10 billion to electrify its aging fleet, including installing modern charging infrastructure at hundreds of postal facilities nationwide and purchasing at least 66,000 electric delivery trucks in the next five years. The spending includes $3 billion in funding approved under a landmark climate and health policy adopted by Congress last year.
The White House hailed the announcement as a way to sustain reliable mail service to Americans while modernizing the fleet, reducing operating costs and clearing the air in neighborhoods across the country.
“This is the Biden climate strategy on wheels and the U.S. Postal Service delivering for the American people,” said White House climate adviser Ali Zaidi.
Truer words were never spoken by a Biden official.
The only thing that worked well in Biden’s Oval Office was the auto-pen.
They have only themselves to blame as they zapped themselves into irrelevancy when their solution to a non-problem was to generate more fiscal boondoggles chasing a mirage.
Electrification of road transport is a certainly a mirage: about 8billion vehicle miles are driven in the USA daily!
Compare to the 3,200 billion miles driven per year by all vehicles. That’s about 0.25% of the total. Its detectable, but no more.
Years/daily ….
Well shoot, no one else did the math. 365 days * .25% is 91%. Or 365 days * 8B miles is 2920 billion miles/year. These figures do not line up.
What’s that in gigawatts?
1.21 Jigawatts
I’m going with Gazongawatts.
“it ended in complete failure” – support this statement. How many vehicles were delivered, are they in operation, what is there history? Tell us why this was a disaster!
For the details, you can go to the first link in this post, which is to a New York Post story.
“Republicans in Congress are working to claw-back the remaining monies. “
250 so far.
Because –
“nothing ‘green’ ever works properly”
– Tim Blair
It isn’t easy being green.
— Kermit the frog
Agreeing with “Retiredinky”.. EV might be bad in general, but why here? Was there a fire? Factory go out of business? Article linked by DD as a reply reports “250 trucks built in two years” but that’s unsurprising for a brand new product. The product followed the higher capital cost model – you want as few as possible “Rev1” hardware versions out in the wild to be retrofitted.
The existing mail truck, called “LLV” for Long Life Vehicle is a completely custom aluminum can that violates most road design rules and is very old in concept.
Not familiar with the auto industry, are you? Vehicles have a 5 year or longer development cycle, no matter what any company propaganda says. You may have a two or three year cycle for new models based on an existing platform with common parts, but not a completely new model. Giving the contract to someone without volume production experience and a short schedule sounds like a government decision, not a sound decision. The referenced article says they can only build one vehicle a day instead of the planned 80. Obviously they are having problems with the parts, the vehicle design and the manufacturing process to be that far behind.
Did the Green New Deal jumpstart EV adoption? Did the taxpayers get any bang for their buck? Or did political donors get rewarded with government contracts?
And how many tons of CO2 were produced to produce the $10 billion investment, not to mention the new trucks? The endless road to Net Zero is paved with wasted oil.
My mail delivery has been plagued for years by mis-delivered and stalled delivery due to shipments going in opposite directions from the specified destination. Not sure how battery powered vehicles will solve that.
oooh Bless your heart, let me google it for you…
Wisconsin-based Oshkosh, a defense contractor, agreed to be paid $2.6 billion by the USPS to provide the 35,000 vehicles — but the Washington Post reported late last year that just 93 battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) were ready by November 2024, even though 3,000 were expected by that date.
Oshkosh’s mail truck production has struggled to clear a number of engineering hurdles, including issues with airbag calibration and during leak testing, which resulted in “water [pouring] out as if [the vehicles’] oversize windows had been left open in a storm.”
A senior executive at Oshkosh attempted to alert USPS about the production problems in 2022, but was blocked by their superiors.
“This is the bottom line: We don’t know how to make a damn truck,” one person involved with the manufacturing process told the Washington Post.
The Biden crime family still believes that slow Joe could have won the election, if he’d only been allowed to stay in the race.
Hard to do when doped up with Ambien, which is the case according to Hunter.
Common side effects include daytime drowsiness, dizziness, and nausea.
One has to wonder what other drugs they were doping the President with.
I’d love to know who “they” is. Until they can find someone on the other team to plausibly blame, I expect to learn nothing on that subject.
Did you ever take a close look at Sleepy Joe’s eyes during the 2016 debates? Whatever they gave him, it wasn’t Ambien. Reminds me of Hitler amping up with amphetamines.
So, was that baggy the found Hunter’s or Joe’s? We will never know. The evidence was destroyed.
The Nazis invented Meth. To make efficient killing machines out of farm boys.
Not clear on the history, but German troops in WWII early years were pumped up with methamphetamines is documented.
I thought the Japanese invented it but the Germans figured out how to use it to keep the troops running at blitzkrieg speed.
Biden’s doctor recently pled the 5th when questioned by a house committee.
Not only his doctor. I haven’t kept a running count but I think it’s 5 now.
Were any of them on the list of “preemptive” pardons?
If so, how they refuse to testify on the grounds they may incriminate themselves if they’ve already been “pardoned”?
The only way I can see is their testimony would show that Biden didn’t sign their pardon or that he never authorized their pardon to be signed by the autopen.
The other team? Why on earth do you think it possible that someone not part of President Biden’s entourage could be involved?
I don’t.
The White House physician, presumedly the doctor prescribing Ambien, took the Fifth Amendment during a Congressional hearing.
Maybe he is innocent. If so, why not answer the questions? Possible explanations exist, but it increases the level of suspicion.
Taking the 5th cannot be the basis for presuming guilt in a court of law. However, the the court of public opinion it’s a confession.
True.
Even in court, it increases the level of suspicion.
May not have stopped with just Ambien . . . you know how these things go, at least according to the DEA and Elvis Pesley and Michael Jackson and . . ..
That is the suspicion.
No proof. No confessions.
So, let those who wish classify it as a conspiracy theory.
We are seeing more and more those conspiracy theories have at least some basis in fact.
Innocent people do take the 5th.
. . . and convicted-guilty-in-a-court-of-law felons do get pardons.
Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that if you refuse to answer a question under the 5th Amendment but the answer would not incriminate you, that is contempt of court.
Ambien was not prescribed for Sleepy Joe according to the public records (according to Daily Wire) so either Hunter was talking out his rear or they were feeding him drugs illegally. Hunter said he was tired from travel so they gave him Ambien. Ambien’s purpose is to help you sleep, so that would be a bad idea for someone heading into a debate.
Simple answer. His family and staff. There might be other candidates for consideration, but those seem the most likely to benefit.
Not the word “wonder” in my post. It was not an accusation.
I thought he looked like he was on uppers for the debates (all of them).
Someday I too might lose it that way.
Luckily I’m in no position to be stuck in the white house by greedy friends and family while it happens.
It’s tempting to give his people the benefit of the doubt, like maybe they didn’t know how bad it would get, but they were running hime _again_.
That is the suspicion, yes.
My guess … His Dr. who took the 5th.
Hunter Biden, of all people, is eminently qualified to know the effects of drugs, but in this instance he also has good reason to make a (false?) excuse to benefit dear ol’ dad, who gave him pardons for his existing felony convictions.
To whoever would believe anything stated by Hunter Biden . . . beware of the hook, line and sinker.
BTW . . . anybody know whatever happened to Hunter’s laptop that was so much in the news several years ago??? Erasing Hunter’s felony convictions did not necessarily erase “interesting” info that was on that laptop according to some rumors.
The laptop is presumedly still lock in the FBI evidence locker.
Most certainly—not presumably—the only thing remaining in the FBI “evidence locker” is a receipt for “one laptop, asserted to be owned by Mr. Hunter Biden but never retrieved by him”.
How very convenient that the FBI and DoJ “lost interest” in that very same laptop once Hunter Biden was pardoned by his father. And the MSM, the sheep that they are, just “went along to get along”.
That’s what happens when you pardon someone for crimes that were never charged or prosecuted and no conviction was ever obtained.
Unconstitutionally pardoned…
Per the Supreme Court, a pardon can only be issued in the event of a conviction or indictment. AND, acceptance of a pardon is an admission of guilt.
A so-call pre-emptive pardon is granting immunity, a power vested in Congress.
Yes, Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter covered ALL crimes he committed or MAY HAVE COMMITTED over a certain defined time period, not just those for which he had been convicted in a court of law.
I’m pretty sure the authors of the US Constitution never intended Article II, Section 2 to grant such a broad power, and unfortunately SCOTUS has never stepped up to curb this power grab by ANY President using it.
Doonman carelessly posted:
The truth is:
“After a week-long trial, a federal jury in the District of Delaware found Robert Hunter Biden guilty of three felonies connected with his illegal purchase of a firearm in October 2018, including making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm, making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federally licensed firearms dealer, and possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.”
— verbatim extract from US DoJ press release dated June 11, 2024 and available at https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco-weiss/pr/robert-hunter-biden-found-guilty-three-felonies-related-illegal-purchase-firearm
The guy was convicted of multiple false statements (i.e., lies) and now wants the public to believe him when he makes a statement about his father using Ambien? Get real!
Mr. So: The laptop was admitted as evidence in a federal trial, pretty routine for it to be retained by the court unless defendant asked for it to be released. Routine, and no chance a “receipt” replaced it.
You and I agree on the “lost interest” part, except that part happened in 2019, and they didn’t lose interest, they hid it. Guliani thought he had the perfect October surprise, he underestimated the capacity of our press to go along with the absurd claims about russian disinfo op.
We agree on things, please don’t ask questions that show you don’t know about how evidence admitted at trial is handled.
Uhhhh . . . I never made reference to the laptop being “admitted as evidence”, so I’m not sure why you bring that up as being relevant to where the laptop may be right now, especially as there absoutely no need for the DoJ to retain “evidence” for a person that has received a broad Presidential pardon for all crimes he committed or MAY HAVE COMMITTED over the time period that covers whatever evidence once existed on Hunter’s laptop.
I don’t know whether or not “we agree on things”—current discussion casting doubt on that—but please refrain from attributing to me things that I never stated or claimed.
BTW, please provide a link to where I can read a FULL TRANSCRIPT of all of the information obtained from Hunter Biden’s laptop that was “admitted” in a trial . . . or was it just that the laptop was presented as physical evidence but nobody in DoJ cared to looked into what data it contained? /sarc
Mr. So: If you are unaware of Hunter’s trial/conviction, that might explain your ignorance. The DOJ had an agent confirm it was Hunter’s laptop, and it got him convicted of tax fraud at a trial. Once admitted, the court retains the physical item.
I don’t do links, but if I did do links, I wouldn’t bother with you. The fact that you don’t know this history leaves me with no urge to educate you.
Mr. Courtney: If you are unaware of facts, and moreover don’t bother to do some basic background Web search inquiries to check things out, that explains your obvious ignorance.
The fact is Hunter Biden never stood trial for his indictment on tax evasion. He plead guilty to federal tax charges—three of which were felonies—on September 5, 2024, before his trial even started with jury selection.
“Hunter Biden offered a surprise guilty plea in his tax evasion case on Thursday, capping a whirlwind day in court in Los Angeles, where jury selection in his trial was set to begin.
“The president’s son entered an open plea — an offer to plead guilty and allow a judge to sentence him — on Thursday afternoon, admitting guilt to all nine charges. His sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 16. He faces up to 17 years in prison.
“ ‘Do you agree you committed every element of the charges in the indictment?’ U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi asked Biden.
“ ‘Yes,’ Biden responded. The judge accepted the plea.”
— source of above quotes: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-guilty-verdict-tax-evasion-trial/ , my bold emphasis added
Also, this source: https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco-weiss/pr/robert-hunter-biden-convicted-three-felony-tax-offenses-and-six-misdemeanor-tax-offenses
So, Hunter Biden never went to trial on his tax evasion indictment and, consequently, there never was a resulting opportunity for the DoJ to present any evidence obtained from Hunter’s laptop computer.
BTW, I obviously do “do links.” To wit:
It is a spiritual work of mercy to “instruct the ignorant”.
— https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10198d.htm
EV USPS trucks or whatever are a very typical Dem/socialist approach to screwing the American public out of money and patience. Why not FIX the almost completely non-functional USPS and do important things, like deliver the mail in a timely fashion-as of right now it takes 7-10 days for the mail to go across town. Oh, and they just raised the stamp prices again. Why? Mail ain’t going anywhere quickly anyways. Jeez.
The mail is a monopoly, a government monopoly. Why would anyone expect it to work well?
But, but, but-a little timely delivery-is that too much to ask?
We need to penalize the USPS for late mail, misdelivered mail, and mangled mail. My mail carrier is piss-poor and complaints do no good. If we start hitting USPS in the pocketbook, perhaps we can see some changes.
The first change is in hiring and employment practices. A private delivery service would have fired my mail carrier long ago.
We could also end the monopoly on mail delivery. Perhaps start allowing private carriers to bid on contracts for running local post offices and delivery.
We need to penalize the USPS
Given the sheer number of items they handle daily, I can understand the occasional late or misdelivered. Mangled, not so much.
But
complaints do no good
THAT is definitely a problem. When you have consistent problems, you can’t get anyone to care. There’s no consequence to poor service – especially if the local postmaster doesn’t care.
We could also end the monopoly on mail delivery.
That’s kinda the case with FedEx and UPS. They’re just not efficient for letters. But your idea might work for something like that. They would have to be allowed to deliver to mailboxes too – that’s one reason it currently won’t work for them.
Side note: At least in the 80’s, USPS First Class was considered sufficiently safe for delivery of classified documents (Confidential – lowest classification). Can’t say I ever thought that was a good idea, but that’s what the regulations said.
Not today. It has to be FedEx with tracking enabled.
Sparta – at least that makes more sense.
First Class back in the day was trustworthy and you could track and get return receipts. Today? Well, opinions vary, don’t they.
USPS unionized workforce is paid way higher than supply and demand would determine, but the job is not all easy- much repetitive manual labor at very early wakeup times.
In my day it was a good place for responsible non-collegiate kids to get reliable work. (Now I guess non-collegiate kids go to college).
Harsh, but accurate. But no sympathy from me-I’ve worked 12 hr shifts at nite, “walked beans” in the Summer heat (anyone know what that means?), held sometimes 3 jobs at once-so there it is. Besides, public sector jobs should not be, maybe, Union? Depending…
No, public sector jobs should not be unionized. And is the USPS a government agency? If not, why are Postal Inspectors armed and considered to be federal agents?
No public sector job should be exempt from RIFs or let go due to lack of productivity.
I drove a paper route. It was not difficult. It is not repetitive manual labor in the common understanding as there are breaks while one drives.
I ordered a part from a place in Murray, UT. I live two miles away, but during Covid they were not allowing in-person transactions. USPS trucked it from there to Las Vegas, and back to me. Now that’s government work!
“And another one bites the dust.” No one should be surprised. This is a feature, not a bug, of the “Progressives”. The intent is to bankrupt the country.
I for one despise getting 120 pounds of junk mail annually (I weighed it). Not to mention, most of my bills are electronic and paid online. The only need for my mailbox is to display my street address.
Yet I am still forced to subsidize a failed business model along with their “green” folly.
There was a man in New England circa 1990 who signed up for all possible junk mail and used it as wood burning stove fuel to heat his house every winter. You might be trashing 120 pounds a year off your home heating bill!
He was evidently a student of the guy in Colorado who did the same thing back in the late 1970s.
There is a much longer story about this contract. Not endorsing Wikipedia as an authority, but this piece lays it all out from the start in 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_NGDV
Story Tip
https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/crews-working-to-clean-leaky-essex-wind-turbines/
Add this to the long term maintenance costs of WTG.
Story Tip
https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/article/earth-is-spinning-faster-making-days-shorter-heres-why-scientists-say-it-could-be-a-problem/
We’ve seen other stories on this topic. This piece goes out of its way to blame “climate change” until one reads the final paragraph:
At the moment, potentially having more time to prepare for action is helpful, given the uncertainty of long-term predictions on Earth’s spinning behavior. “I think the (faster spinning) is still within reasonable boundaries, so it could be natural variability,” Soja said. “Maybe in a few years, we could see again a different situation, and long term, we could see the planet slowing down again. That would be my intuition, but you never know.”
Burn more stuff, the atmosphere gets thicker from the smoke, the drag slows down the Earth’s rotation… problem solved!
I would expect that when the polar glaciers melt, much of that water would move to the equator, where it is thousands of miles further from the axis of rotation, which would result in the earth’s rotation slowing down. (Of course, this slowdown would be measured in, at most, micro-seconds.)
Story Tip
https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/article/arctic-birders-combat-impact-of-climate-change-and-avian-flu-on-delicate-ecosystem/
It seems climate change is killing Norwigian birds.
Ignore the avian flu or just blame the flu on “Climate Change”, too?
In 2023, a large outbreak killed some 25,000 kittiwakes alone along the northern Norwegian coast, Reiertsen said.
Insert excerpt from Monty Pythin “Norwegian Blue Parrot” bit here.
Typo: Norwegian birds.
Story tip:
“Two-thirds of the global warming since 2001 is sulphur dioxide reduction rather than carbon dioxide increases.”
Peter Cox, Professor of Climate System Dynamics at the University Of Exeter
Most warming this century may be due to air pollution cuts; New Scientist; 14 July 2025
Sulphur dioxide reduction due in large part from mandating and adopting Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel Fuel for vehicles and heavy equipment, and Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil for cargo ships. I hope that Willis, or Rud, or someone much more knowledgeable than I who normally contributes here is working on a column on this topic.
The current level of sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere is about 1 part per billion (https://www.aqi.in/uk/dashboard/united-states/so2 )
“From 1995-2023, annual emissions of SO2 from power plants fell by 95 percent and annual emissions of NOX from power plants fell by 89 percent.”
(https://www.epa.gov/power-sector/progress-report-emissions-reductions )
So, even if we go back to 1995 and assume the above-stated reductions were world-wide, 30 years ago there would have been only around 20*1 ppb = 20 ppb SO2 in Earth’s atmosphere. I’m not aware of any climate/atmospheric/radiation scientist who would agree that 20 parts per billion of atmospheric SO2 would result in any significant “cooling” of (actually, reduced absorption of solar radiation by) Earth, all other things being equal . . . thus falsifying any claim that two-thirds of the global warming since 2001 is due to reduction in atmospheric sulphur dioxide concentration.
LOL.
Your estimate is close to the published 14.7 ppb.
Perhaps my memory is faulty. That could have been 14.7 million tons.
Let’s look at SO2 data over the US..
From 1980.. 174ppb to 1998… 89ppb , (a decrease of 14.7 million tons)
close to half the SO2…
UAH USA48 shows no warming.
SO2 dropped from 79ppb in 2005 to 24ppb in 2015..( a decrease of 8.1 million tons)
so to just less than 1/3.
According to USCRN and UAH USA48 there was no warming.
The SO2-decrease -> warming conjecture is not supported by measured evidence.
As always, correlation does not define causation.
Correlation invites investigation. Does A cause B? Does B cause A? Does X cause both A and B? Are A and B independent?
The UK has had electrically powered milk delivery vehicles since at least the 40s, they had the advantage of being quiet since milk was delivered early in the morning and were more efficient than ICEs which are not suitable for constant stopping and starting. Electrically powered mail delivery vehicles is an excellent idea.
UK small, US big US also very cold and/or very hot-neither good for EVs. There’s already a problem with mail delivery, I’m sure an EV fire wouldn’t help.
Those were lead acid batteries.
Thy were likely the standard large mass battery of the day that requires a full night recharge to be effective.
Yes, it was still a good solution to the problem and was very efficient.
Lead-acid batteries, the type used on early EV vehicles in the US before they were displaced by ICE motors, have notoriously short lives when the are cycled to depths-of-discharge below the range of 80-50% (https://support.offgridtrailers.com/battery-depth-of-discharge-and-how-this-affects-you ).
If one sticks to this limit, lead-acid batteries were actually a poor choice in those early days of vehicles used for deliveries in the US, but there wasn’t any other option besides using a horse or mule.
Anybody got an idea for how frequently lead-acid batteries had to be replaced on early automobiles or trucks that used them?
Just wondering how many hundreds of thousands (millions?) of commuter buses around the world, all powered by internal combustion engines using fossil fuels, easily falsify that statement.
Well if you must have EVs for the PO, why not charge them by burning all the junk mail to generate electricity. How many GwH in a ton of junk mail? Then make concrete from the fly ash to build the charging stations. Easy peasy.
On the surface this should have been an easy win.
Most USPS trucks drive less than 50 miles a day.
Vehicle is based off of Ford Transit, so it should be as simple as building an RV on a truck/van chassis like Fleetwood, Winnebago, Coachman, Sprinter, etc. The e-Transit range is only 120-150 miles. Horrible decision to choose that platform when others get 300+ miles.
The government fails at most things it tries and spends our money like it was free. How the heck did Oshkosh get the contract for this? Senator Ron Johnson (WI) would be a good place to start. Then find out who purchased $54M in stock the day before the contract was announced.
But all those postal delivery EV trucks would need charging stations at each post office. Plus the grid infrastructure to power the chargers. And they would have to be able to ensure a complete charge (20% [or what ever the truck’s remaining charge was] to 80%) overnight.
Plus there would have to be at-post-office and at-depot maintenance capabilities implemented prior to delivery of the trucks.
It’s not just a vehicle, it’s a system.
I completely agree. I am also an engineer named Jim who just retired.
This should have been rolled out in small batches – as in start off in a few locations, evaluate the real costs, impacts, issues, and then re-assess. There are way too many theoretical and wishful thinkers in government and those people never have to live with the consequences of their decisions.
How is Amazon success with their Rivian developed EV delivery vans? I live in Phoenix and see them all over the place. Why wouldn’t USPS just buy those? Government fails where private industry succeeds.
“all those postal delivery EV trucks” is not a big enough number to require a new grid.
Just because EVs suck in general does not mean EVs suck for every application.
Nobody said anything about needing a new grid.
The comment was about needing to upgrade the grid, which is completely true. Most post offices employ 20 to 30 trucks. The big ones even more. Charging all of those overnight, every night is going to be a huge drain on the existing grid.
If nothing else, lines installed for the recharging stations.
Can’t use an outlet strip.
To which I would add the required annual “replacement costs” due to number of EV-powered postal delivery vehicles that are bound to spontaneously burst into flames each year . . . as documented for “hoverboards” . . . as documented for electric bikes . . . as documented for battery EV automobiles. It is indeed system-matic.
What went wrong? I don’t like EVs for most situations but suburban mail delivery seems like a good use case.
Article indicates EV postal was expensive and associated it with a bad presidency but doesn’t explain why it went wrong – having worked in a post office to fund schooling I’d expected employees of that era to resist change to the point of sabotage but management does not react well to unhappy customers.
The post offices in our area are closing, and the outdoor drop-boxes have had steel plates bolted across their drop-slots because of crime. The drop-boxes are still there, but they have been repainted to like-new. Yet, the parking lots where these are found are nearly always very well-lit, and are surrounded by upscale, sometimes affluent neighborhoods.
The USPS delivery truck in the image looks like it would have trouble passing beneath many (most?) urban and some highway overpasses. Then there are parking garages.
So, where were the charging facilities going to be put?
Got a few non sequiturs.
More likely, they simply don’t get enough usage to justify their existence.
The post offices in our area are closing, and the outdoor drop-boxes have had steel plates bolted across their drop-slots because of crime. The drop-boxes are still there, but they have been repainted to like-new. Yet, the parking lots where these are found are nearly always very well-lit, and are surrounded by upscale, sometimes affluent neighborhoods.
The USPS delivery truck in the image looks like it would have trouble passing beneath many (most?) urban and some highway overpasses. Then there are parking garages.
So, where were the charging facilities going to be put?
Got a few non sequiturs.
Some of the current USPS delivery vehicles are in really rough shape engine-wise … we’re talking obvious oil-burners like seen (and smelled) in the days of old (Heh, like the 1960’s and 70’s).
I’m speaking of the funny-looking Grumman “Long Life Vehicle” (LLV) now.
It might’ve been reasonable to replace those with EVs, but trying to replace vehicles with possibly another 20 or more year’s life in them, in 4 years – madness!
Are we sure about that? Like Obamacare, it’s likely the intended results aren’t the stated results.
Yeah, we’re sure.
Maybe the intent was to rob the public blind.
Sorry, this is passe
Fossil fuels are ‘running out of road’, UN chief says – the Guardian
https://apple.news/AUyMsRMquRs2rUVCBuEue6A
What planet is he on?
Planet UN Gravy Train.
So, I wonder in what alternate reality would these postal EVs be an improvement over just purchasing new ICE vehicles? Other than the one where “saving the planet” was an issue. The whole thing looks like a huge boondoggle, likely to cost way more, and cause headaches for all concerned.
Biden had nothing to do with it. It was his auto-pen.
Ouch, but good.
I need to correct that last quote in the above article from current White House climate adviser Ali Zaidi thusly:
“This is the Biden climate strategy on wheels and the U.S. Postal Service
delivering forits BS to the American people.”BTW, Ali Zaidi is a dyed-in-the-wool career lawyer-cum-federal bureaucrat, with no formal education in a science or engineering discipline, let alone such specific to energy or “climate”. Zaidi completed a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. Beginning in February 2009, Zaidi served for eight years in a number of roles within the Obama administration, including the White House Domestic Policy Council’s deputy director for energy policy and policy aide to U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and as special projects coordinator at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. In February 2017, Zaidi joined the law firm Morrison & Foerster as a senior advisor in their Washington, D.C. office. He was a Precourt Scholar and adjunct professor at Stanford University before joining the Biden administration where in September 2022 he succeeded McCarthy as the White House National Climate Advisor.
If you care to invest a few minutes of your time witnessing a “word salad” greeting from Mr. Zaidi, just watch him starting at the 1m15sec time hack into this linked 2m29sec total duration video from 2023:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezgCDa0IdJg
Maybe somebody out there can interpret what Zaidi means when he asks “all of us” to be “stepping up to the plate” “not just to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, but to”—get this!—“grow a stronger, fairer, more durable economy that works for all of us, from the bottom up and the middle class out.”
WTF? Shades of Kamala Harris imagining what might be unencumbered by what has been!
Why is this guy still around in the Trump administration???
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It’s not just the batteries you have to worry about. The charging stations also catch fire.
Tesla charger sparked garage fire in Lewisville, Texas, city confirms | Fox News
You think that is spectacular? Wait for the 5 minute chargers.
Beer and popcorn anyone?
All $10B will be laundered right back into the DNC and globohomo programs.
That comes out to over $150,000 per vehicle. That’s absolutely insane. I spotted one of these ugly monstrosities at my local post office several weeks ago. Looks like a gold fish bowl.
Well, that’s only if you overlook the vigorish (aka kickbacks) paid to the company selling the EV postal delivery vehicles to the Federal government. It’s likely that the actual vehicle cost is around $75,000 per unit (still outrageous!), with the other $75,000 per vehicle being something like dealer “preparation’ costs”, or dealer “delivery” costs, or “on-time delivery fees” or . . .