Posted on 10/27/2022 5:24:46 PM PDT by lowbridge
Some school districts in Upstate New York, including two in Onondaga County, are expected to receive over $50 million in federal funding through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new Clean School Bus Program, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday.
The funding will be used to purchase over 130 new electric school buses as part of a program created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
“Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure and Jobs Law, as the wheels of the new, electric school buses go round and round, carbon emissions and pollution is going to keep going down and down,” said Senator Schumer. “Over $50 million will supercharge our efforts to fight climate change and power over 130 brand new electric buses to keep our air clean, kids safe and our Upstate New York healthy. I am proud to deliver this tremendous environmental justice investment that will put our students on the road to a brighter future and a cleaner commute.
”The Fabius-Pompey Central School District will receive a total of $1,975,000 to purchase five electric school buses, and the Jordan-Elbridge Central School District will receive $395,000 to purchase one bus.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act included $5 billion over five years for the replacement of existing school buses with low and zero-emission school buses. This is the first round of grants from that program.
The first round of grant funding will add nearly 2,500 electric buses to the nation’s fleet.
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I am sure the parents will be very understanding when their kids are stranded on the side of the road on a January morning with a wind-chill many degrees below zero.
;-)
Those school district “leaders” are gonna want to run away and hide.
an environmental ‘justice’ investment??????
What the heck!
That will work really well in winter when the wind blows off the lake and everything goes into the deep freeze. Batteries love that. /s
Bingo.
This will be a huge fail.
There is no man made climate change...Period...
Sounds like some kind of corruption scheme.
We could have told them that. My neighbor was leaving her battery powered mobility scooter outside a couple years ago in the dead of winter. She was always upset why her battery kept running out.
The batch we got wouldn’t start. They had to go heat the garages to warm up the buses. lol
Kids called them Yeller Fellers.
A blue norther comes blowing in all the way from the Arctic Circle, and temperatures drop to a -20 degrees Fahrenheit, not much is going to get those buses going. What little power is developed is going to look a LOT more feeble when they begin mounting hills or clawing their way through snowbanks or frozen ruts. And keeping the kids warm, forget it.
And the solar panels or the windmills will just not provide enough electricity to charge them back up.
Who’s the manufacturers...
That’ll tell ya
Wasted money and broken buses - with no range .
We will see how green this turns out when all the parents drive their children to school in fear of the yellow fire bombs.
With a lake effect snow band moving in.
I’m sure the good people of upstate NY will jump in with their snowmobiles and bring the kids to safety. Although with heating costs spiking under Biden, they may have to keep their jackets and boots on indoors too.
The good news about this rush to stupidity is that it will become obvious that much sooner.
Hopefully it will end several political careers and break the Donor/Reward loop.
They’ll also need a lot of hot air blowing to keep the windows clear of frost.
Extra short bus
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