Buck Throckmorton keeps track of all the Electric Vehicle whoring. In this essay, he remarks on school buses.
There have been some ridiculous market distortions imposed by our government in its effort to replace vehicles powered by gasoline and diesel with those powered by electricity, but perhaps none is more ridiculous than the various subsidies designed to electrify America’s school bus fleet.
The federal government is providing multi-million dollar subsidies to school bus manufacturers for producing electric school buses, and the government is also providing multi-billion dollar subsidies to local school districts to buy these electric buses. One school bus manufacturer, Blue Bird Corporation, is riding high right now, as both streams of free federal money are flowing into its coffers....
Down the throat AND up the a**!! Yes, it's just like a porn movie.
...From a news item in the Times-Union newspaper last February, five of the seven electric school buses operated by the Bethlehem (New York) Central School District had been inoperable in preceding weeks....
But the only way to get "free money" is to destroy the old gasoline or diesel buses. Not trade them in, not sell them to another party, not keep them in the back yard just in case....nope. Shred the damn things. So Bethlehem Central District had a problem!
...Aside from being unreliable, electric school buses are also a horrible fit for places with cold winters. The Department of Energy offers some pretty outrageous advice on how to overcome the inherent problem of electric school buses losing their charge in winter. These include:
• Minimize Door Openings: “Consider if you can reduce or minimize the time the doors are open on the bus.”
• Add Heated Driver’s Seats: “Heating a driver’s seat requires much less power than heating the cabin air.”
• Evaluate Worst-Case Cold Weather When Performing Route Analysis: “Consider driving your ESB on various routes during its first season operating in cold weather, starting with the shortest, least demanding route.”
• Store ESBs Indoors Overnight: “If indoor storage is not possible, storing the bus in areas with sunshine during the day helps the bus use less power for cabin heating…”...
Genius!! Build new buildings to accommodate your entire fleet of buses!! Heat those buildings, too!! Make all the children walk six or more blocks to the ONLY bus stop in their entire subdivision!!! Experiment with different routings for a while and drive Mommies absolutely crazy. And do NOT heat the 'cabin' where the kids sit. Make them learn about how the pioneers really lived. History, and all that!
Every one of those overstuffed pale, nerds at DoE is paid more than $100K/year and they chauffeur their own kids to their private school.
How did I guess that?
1 comment:
Biden has never been president
When the office of the presidencyhas been stolen
What the hell do you expect?
Greg
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