Veep Kamala Harris touted federal grants two years ago to replace thousands of gas-guzzling school buses with greener versions — yet fewer than 7% of the initial districts have actually completed the switch.
The administration announced its kick-off to the troubled program in 2022, with Harris crowing that the first billion dollars would help 389 school districts across the country purchase upwards of 2,400 “clean” buses.
But so far, just 27 of those hundreds of school districts have marked their project status as “complete,” according to an EPA tracker, which was updated June 20.
But it gets worse than just non participation.
Who actually wants them? Perhaps we should ask some of those in blue Maryland.
From Daily Caller:
“An investigation into a Maryland school system’s electric bus initiative found that it resulted in millions of dollars in “wasteful spending” due to issues with the vehicles, according to a report from the county’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released in late July.”
Perhaps wasteful government spending is a recurrent blue state theme?
Are EV school buses safe ?
Rollouts for electric buses across the country have been plagued with issues, including reports of the vehicles bursting into flames due to battery malfunctions in Wichita, Kansas, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Hamden, Connecticut, since July 2022. Additionally, eight electric buses purchased by a Democratic enclave in Wyoming became indefinitely inoperable in 2023 after the buses began experiencing mechanical issues and their manufacturer, Proterra, went bankrupt.
The Biden administration is handing out nearly $1.7 billion across 46 states and territories to buy electric and low-emission buses despite their susceptibility to catching on fire, the Department of Transportation (DOT) announced.
Hmmm!
The federal government has already spent $3.3 billion on the bus electrification projects prior to the recent announcement, and reportedly plans to spend a further $5 billion in the next three years as outlined in the bipartisan infrastructure law, according to The Associated Press.
Does the misguided wisdom of Kamala Harris on EV school buses actually suggest to anyone that she should be in charge in our country?
Will she suddenly have a “change of heart” on EV school buses, similar to what is now having on fracking?
8/13/24
californiacontrarian.com