DeSantis Gone Woke? FL Gov. Spends Nearly $70 Million on Green Dream Buses

Governor Ron DeSantis ordered the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to put aside $68 million for 227 electric buses. That’s nearly $300,000 per bus.

DeSantis called the measure a way to lower the state’s emissions which will help Florida’s air quality.

“This funding will help lower emissions while also bringing our transit bus fleets to more modern standards. This is a win-win for air quality and advancing the state’s efforts to bolster growing electric vehicle usage,” the Florida Governor said in a statement.

The funding comes after the state received $166 million from automobile maker Volkswagen’s federal settlement case in 2015.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Volkswagen companies made sure their diesel-operated vehicles could pass federal emissions tests by putting software in them to rig the system.

The 227 buses will replace diesel-operated buses in 13 of the state’s most urban areas.

Conservatives across social media have criticized DeSantis over his climate change agenda.

“Trump 2024[.] Sorry DeSantis Bros but pushing the Climate Crisis Hoax is unacceptable,” one Twitter user commented.

“A total waste of money on a non-existent problem! Once EVs are manufactured to travel for as long as and be as reliable as gas-powered cars, maybe this kind of spending would be reasonable. But for now, stick to CNG and diesel,” another user added.

Despite DeSantis charading as being against climate change policy last week by banning ESG “agenda” from playing a role in state pension investments, the governor’s recent move has invigorated climate change enthusiasts.

The Governor had knocked corporate power which shoves the climate change agenda at the expense of the American people: “Corporate power has increasingly been utilized to impose an ideological agenda on the American people through the perversion of financial investment priorities under the euphemistic banners of environmental, social, and corporate governance and diversity, inclusion, and equity.”

Seriously? Do you live in Florida and experience the absolute insanity that ensues when a hurricane is approaching? I live there and people absolutely DO wait for busses in ‘cane weather. The issue is, flooding and EV ANYTHING don’t mix.

Look a little further down the road than just this moment, put on your thinking cap and get back to us when you’ve figured it out. Until you’ve been through a hurricane, you know nothing. It’s not the actual event itself that’s the main problem..... it’s afterwards.

The eye wall of Ian came within 3 or 4 miles of my home that I live in year around. Within a quarter mile of me houses had fish in their swimming pools after the hurricane. Is that experience enough for you? The buses ceased running hours before the high winds and heavy rains and flooding started. What I said was spot on.

Yes EV’s absolutely suck in a hurricane or even a tropical storm, but don’t BS me and tell me people will be riding electric buses in hurricane weather and storm surges.

And for the record I witnessed the fire of the white Telsa on Tamiami Trail in Naples that got so much national press right after Ian. Flood them and they are a fire hazard. Unfortunately I also witnessed truck load after truck load of flood destroyed ICE vehicles being pulled from the residences west of Tamiami Trail too.

Speaking of electric buses...

This story is from Upstate NY, yesterday...

https://www.rochesterfirst.com/fire-department/fire-crews-investigate-apparent-bus-fire-on-nys-thruway/

Only a handful of stories, all with the same very limited info, and no follow-ups anywhere.

Really wondering if thus was an EV bus, if it was transporting migrants, or both...

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Climate change enthusiasts supported DeSantis' purchase which he claims will help fix Florida's 'air quality'

Florida’s Republican Governor recently appeased climate change activists and Green New Deal supporters by spending nearly $70 million dollars on electric transportation.