Newer is not always better!
Posted on 08/06/2022 10:38:00 AM PDT by rktman
Congress undoubtedly has a lot of options to consider when it comes expanding the usage of renewable energy. The challenges facing lawmakers involve a variety of sizable risks and pitfalls, in what amounts to a complex chess game. But in order to properly succeed in this game, Congress and the Administration should never consider sacrificing key government agencies as pawns.
Unfortunately, it appears that the United States Postal Service (USPS) is at risk of being “captured” in the proverbial chess game that is Washington politics. In what would amount to a serious strategic error, some Capitol Hill leaders are now considering an illogical spending package for new USPS vehicles in their pursuit to greenify everything.
Earlier this year, the Postal Service reiterated its vehicle preferences for gasoline-powered delivery trucks over electric vehicles. If you are like me, you might be suspicious of a government agency that is resisting the change to new technology. But this decision is consistent with a supplier agreement the USPS reached in 2020 and reflects the agency’s aims for cost-effectiveness, performance reliability, alignment with existing infrastructure, and other practical matters.
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Bigger parcel trucks, no. Long-haul delivery, no. But for small mailbox stuff, electric might actually make sense.
What happens when these vehicles burst into flames while carrying the monthly SS checks?
Alot of seniors ain’t gonna be happy.
The move to EVs is little more than a government driven fad
at this point. It’s popular to talk about saving Gia the
somehow discerned phantom center of the Earth’s own
conscious being.
I’m sure some will be dismissive of that last part, but it’s
as believable as anything being offered up to save mother
Earth from the evil men who are ‘killing her, er it’.
The government should take a step back and a big breath,
and disassociate from those who have gone postal on this
issue.
Electrifying a fleet of trucks? The symbolism of paying
this much homage to the global warming shamans, is rather
unnerving to say the least.
We only have eight years left. Why generate that electricity with dirty fuel when we can fuel a million walking mailmen with low flatulence lentils?
It is well past time to disband the USPS and to allow common carriers like Amazon, FedEx, and UPS to carry first class mail.
Just imagine how much a stamp is going to cost so they can pay their electric bills.
I want to see the PO trucks in our rural area in January when it gets below twenty degrees.
I will keep an extra pot of coffee on hand in case the delivery person gets stranded.
;-)
Not to mention junk mail. Who was it that said the elderly loved receiving junk mail? Dingy Harry Reid? I think it was. I was going to start sending mine to him but he croaked.
Strip mined EV’s are green.
Don’t buy I to the electric being green nonsense. Mathematically, it just doesn’t work out. The mining alone required for the world to go green would destroy yhe planet.
They’d better buy a fleet of gas or diesel-powered Tow Trucks, to retrieve those EV junkers stranded by the side of so many roads, out of power. And forget about Overnight, 1-Day, 2-Day Delivery. If your letter or package gets to your mailbox within 10 days, that’ll be just fine with them.
More billions and billions of our hard-earned tax dollars down the toilet, dwarfing previous decades.
Why not give them horse and wagon , at least they’ll have a friend
Electric mail truck? Can you imagine the “brownouts” and blackouts in the few days prior to election day? The democRATS would have a field day with the mail in ballots.
They should build swappable battery packs.
Direct Deposit will become mandatory, I’m guessing.
Hunter Biden’s Firm Wanted to Asset Strip the U.S. Postal Service, E-Mail Reveals...
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is trying to replace the Postmaster General.
https://thenationalpulse.com ^ | April 1, 2022 | by Raheem J. Kassam
Posted on 4/5/2022, 8:11:01 AM by Red Badger
President Biden’s son Hunter’s Rosemont Seneca firm considered the idea of asset stripping the U.S. Postal Service, previously unseen e-mails have revealed. The news comes as Joe Biden attempts to oust the current Postmaster General over election fraud concerns.
Writing to colleagues including Hunter Biden – the disgraced son of then-Vice President Joe Biden – Rosemont Seneca partner Neil Callahan said, “I still love this idea,” before forwarding an e-mail discussing the asset stripping of the U.S. Postal Service, The National Pulse can reveal.
Rosemont Seneca is the controversial firm led by Hunter Biden, which engaged in energy deals with the Chinese Communist Party as well as Burisma in Ukraine, and Metabiota’s biolabs in the same Eurasian nation.
Callahan was referring to an idea for a friend of Rosemont Seneca’s, a man by the name of Amitava Mitra.
Mitra had mooted the idea of asset stripping the U.S. Postal Service, detailing a strategy involving the multi-billion dollar, New York-based investment firm Evercore:
“I was talking with the evercore guys today… Evercore has a contract with USPS, who knows what they do, strategic advice they say. probably they are just selling off the real estate quietly as the USPS is in a $ 6 or 7 billion hole. think of it, USPS’s real estate in NY, DC, Chicago, LA, SF is worth $ 30 billion… if you can find a good firm, to fund this can be a huge play, just retail real estate like Grand central station… let me know.”
The news comes after the 2020 election, during which operatives on the political left accused President Donald Trump of attacking the Postal Service over his concerns with mail-in ballots.
The revelations are also concerning given current President Joe Biden’s insistence on removing the current Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, as Biden seeks to fundamentally transform the service with focuses on election funding and a green agenda.
The idea as presented on Hunter Biden’s hard drive did not appear to lead anywhere, though it may go some way to explaining Biden’s current obsession with removing Trump-era appointee DeJoy.
Last year, Biden began stacking the USPS board with political allies after being urged to do so by far-left Members of Congress. Last year, without specifics, outgoing White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki blasted DeJoy:
“We are, of course, deeply troubled, continue to be deeply troubled — as many Americans are — by the earlier reporting on Postmaster General DeJoy’s potential financial conflicts of interest and take serious issues with the job he’s doing running the Postal Service… It’s up to the board to make a determination about leadership, but we have continued concerns about the postmaster general’s leadership.”
The behavior strikes a worryingly similar tone to that of Joe Biden in Ukraine in 2016. During a Council on Foreign Relations event, the former VP appeared to admit that he leveraged U.S. aid to Ukraine in order to force out a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating his son Hunter’s former company, Burisma.
“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden said he told Poroshenko, before concluding: “Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”
The Hunter Biden USPS e-mail was sent just after a deal was struck between the Postal Service and Evercore, an investing and consulting firm led by former Clinton Treasury appointee Roger Altman.
Altman, a college friend of former President Clinton’s, was forced to resign from the U.S. government in 1994 after admitting before the U.S. Senate that he had given White House officials a “heads-up” on nine criminal referrals that, according to CNN, “targeted Clinton’s 1985 gubernatorial campaign, and named the Clintons as witnesses in others.”
The news comes as corporate media organizations admit the veracity of Hunter Biden’s hard drive and the associated e-mails within. The National Pulse was one of the first and most frequent outlets to report from the drive, with a cache of stories available at BidenLeak.com
Thy’d need a small crane to change packs. Those things aren’t the swappable charger packs you use for the weed wacker or hand drill.
Smell that , your mail is burning
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