Haven't heard about this? Local "press"..........ah........well.......
And you can bet that Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) ain't talking about this, either.
A multibillion-dollar program to buy electric vehicles for the U.S. Postal Service is far behind its original schedule, plagued by manufacturing mishaps and supplier infighting that threaten a cornerstone of outgoing President Joe Biden’s fight against climate change....
...The Postal Service is slated to purchase 60,000 “Next Generation Delivery Vehicles,” or NGDVs — mostly electric — from defense contractor Oshkosh, which has a long history of producing military and heavy industrial vehicles, but not postal trucks. Congress provided $3 billion for the nearly $10 billion project in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, one of Biden’s chief legislative accomplishments.
But as of November, the Postal Service had received only 93 of the Oshkosh trucks, the agency told The Washington Post — far fewer than the 3,000 expected by now....
The expected cost/vehicle? About $78,000 or so. Maybe they'll actually deliver some....
...On Dec. 20, 2022, the Postal Service announced plans to phase out the old gas trucks and exclusively purchase EVs by 2026. It would buy more than 106,000 vehicles, including roughly 45,000 electric NGDVs and 21,000 EVs from mainstream automakers such as Ford, Ram and Mercedes....
A billion here, a billion there, and eventually you'll get 5 trucks!
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Why does everything have to be a scam?
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