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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My local UPS trucks were electric...”were” being the operative word.
Right now, even the most optimistic corporate players in the freight/delivery industry are buying and testing EVs through R&D departments. That right there tells me that they still have a way to go before these EVs are viable at large scales.
Your mail order drugs burned up in the mail truck today when the batteries ignited due to house to house, stop and go driving all day.
“The percentage of voters registered with the Republican Party decreased from 27.1% to 24.0%.”
But I strongly disagree that 46.3 are Dems now. BS. The makeup of any postal workforce says otherwise. If 95-98% of black people vote Dem (local and nationally figures vary) then who are these non-Dems?
300,000 member union endorsed and paid donations to Biden.
My guess is first all EV postal force, then fires and breakdowns and recalls.
Then....
All postal patrons must go to a pickup point and get their own mail. No deliveries.
According to federal law, Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income benefits must be paid electronically. However, those who were receiving paper checks previous to the new law may still be receiving their benefits in this way. Financial site The Motley Fool indicated that 549,818 people were still receiving paper benefit checks as of August 2020. For new applicants for Social Security benefits, however, paper checks are definitely a thing of the past.
https://www.helpadvisor.com/social-security/does-social-security-still-mail-paper-checks
and the first EV full of packages and letters that goes up in flames?
fun fun fun
Right up until one burst into flames and takes the fleet with it.
They’d be better off with a safer hybrid for fuel economy.
What does Congress have to do with the price of a stamp?
does that include while sitting in your garage or a parking garage
Car and Driver calls BS on your graphic...
so back at the post office parking lot are these EVs all gonna plug in at same time?
how many chargers will they need?
one bursts into flames and the whole parking lot goes up?
Follow the money.
This has nothing to do with the environment or efficiency.
Those who approved this are getting bribes and kickbacks.
There are always two. A Congressman and the person you bribe on their behalf.
They don’t have to work. They just have to be paid.
Since 1970, the Postal Regulatory Commission sets the price for USPS stamps. My comment re Congress is that they will fund the shortfalls at the post office.
This is way less than the numbers being bandied about on this thread.
Actually, USPS engineers studied the battery performance and concluded that the problem is the stop-and-go nature of mail delivery. It’s a battery killer.
Right. And even considering a hybrid vehicle that recharges via braking activity, a postal hybrid would regenerate almost nothing while making neighborhood stops house-to-house, while the constant 0 to 30 acceleration would certainly drain the battery.
We rarely get our mail now. We had to pay all our bills online and end paper bills because of so many missing.
All I know that the “horseless carriage” didn’t need the government to subsidize Henry Ford nor tax hay to convince the American public to give up their hayburners.
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