Rural medical care is dramatically hit or miss; you might have a great doctor near you today, they retire, and it might be 8 years before you can lure someone to build up a practice again.
Often you're going two to 4 hours away for a minor surgical procedure, major ones might be a 6-8 hour drive.
These are lifelines for communities.
Just as another weird bit of the bill is taking all of the electric vehicles Congress made USPS buy, many of which are the only vehicles in a station with such luxuries as air bags or air conditioning, and just auctioning them off with no replacements for these vehicles. ‘cause why not have another postal carrier die in a crash or from heat related illness, because you decided to force funds to be spent one way, then take those vehicles (and the funds away)..
Huh, and the other problem is that many of the vehicles those electric ones replaced have already been taken out of service and crushed.
There are a lot of questionable choices in the Senate version of the bill that trumpet idealism over rational choices. And of course, those most impacted by this choice as well will be rural mail delivery. They may not have electric vehicles, but restaging vehicles to continue delivery in urban areas will take vehicles from rural mail delivery, and good luck hiring people at $20.38/hr who are told ‘you gotta provide your own vehicle for mail delivery.’
“Just as another weird bit of the bill is taking all of the electric vehicles Congress made USPS buy, many of which are the only vehicles in a station with such luxuries as air bags or air conditioning, and just auctioning them off with no replacements for these vehicles. ‘cause why not have another postal carrier die in a crash or from heat related illness, because you decided to force funds to be spent one way, then take those vehicles (and the funds away)..”
That seems to be a stupid idea on its face. I’ve read no justification for it.
Walmart uses electric vehicles for deliveries in my area.