From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: So Fucking Good, They Were Going To Make Our Lives SO Much Easier... And Cheaper? - Uhhhh... No
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:04:09 -0600
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
Despite $3b Commitment, Only 93 of 3,000 Promised Electric Sups Trucks Delivered
93
Yes!
Government doing what the private should? Yeah... that ALWAYS works out right.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's bizarre and frankly childish behavior during testimony before Congress wasn't the U.S. Postal Service's worst
moment last week. That came two days later.
DeJoy, appearing before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, was told by Republican Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia that he is
"responsible for the fall of the Postal Service and the lack of accountability."
DeJoy retorted that 'this Congress is responsible for it falling apart" and insisted he was 'trying to fix" the post office.
He then told McCormick that "you're talking to yourself" and covered his ears with his hands like the "hear no evil" monkey. (See it for yourself
here.)
Appalling as that was, DeJoy's antics were overshadowed when the Washington Post reported that even after the Biden administration committed $3
billion to buy electric delivery trucks for the post office, the contractor it hired, Oshkosh, has delivered only 93 of what was supposed to be 3,000
EV trucks by now.
"Postal Service's electric mail trucks are way behind schedule," the Post says. "The delays put Biden's climate goals at risk." (Concern for the
phantom danger of "climate change" outweighs the gross incompetence of the federal government in the eyes of the Post.)
The "historic" White House initiative that was ultimately to deliver 60,000 Next Generation Delivery Vehicles to the post office has been "plagued by
manufacturing mishaps and supplier infighting," says the Post.
Rather than building 80 a day, as was the expectation, the company is cobbling together just one.
OK, so maybe this isn't the Postal Service's fault. And Biden might even deserve a little slack on this one. He has no direct line to the
manufacturer's troubles.
Still, a thread exists.
Biden could have used the dollars to buy mail trucks that would be built and delivered on time, but he chose to buy vehicles that would be, in the
words of the Post, the "hallmark" of his "industrial and climate agenda."
Practicality and principled stewardship of taxpayers' dollars were apparently never a consideration. It was all about Biden's legacy.
We're not letting the Postal Service off entirely, either.
DeJoy could have put up a fight and demanded that Washington buy trucks from companies that build tens of thousands of vehicles a month and could
produce mail trucks with only minor retooling of their manufacturing processes.
No need for them to be "next generation" for simple postal delivery. They could be as austere and basic as the more than 600,000 frill-free Jeeps
built for World War II by multiple companies.
This is a scandal not unlike Biden's inability to build the EV charging stations he promised. As of last month, after $7.5 billion was allocated in
2021 for that project, only eight charging stations, which have 214 charging ports, have been built.
Biden bragged earlier this year that he'd build a half million of them.
http://archive.today/2024.12.13-124120/https:/www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/11/biden-usps-ev-oshkosh-climate/
http://archive.today/2024.12.18-184752/https:/www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2024-11-27/fact-focus-posts-misrepresent-biden-administration-
spending-on-ev-charging-stations
https://archive.is/V7rW3
https://climatechangedispatch.com/biden-promised-half-a-million-ev-charging-stations-we-now-have-eight/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/bidens-electric-car-fiasco-is-already-causing-an-economic-bloodbath/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/citing-high-ev-costs-usps-still-plans-to-purchase-gas-delivery-trucks/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/epa-wants-to-nix-new-fleet-of-usps-trucks-to-fight-climate-change/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/fact-check-biden-claims-credit-for-500000-ev-charging-stations-only-8-were-built/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/financially-strapped-usps-spending-billions-on-evs-as-it-stonewalls-foia-requests/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/how-trump-can-finally-dismantle-the-climate-industrial-complex/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/the-last-thing-the-usps-needs-is-a-green-fleet/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/usps-plans-to-go-green-by-2026-and-its-gonna-cost-taxpayers-billions/
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5145579/postmaster-general-covers-ears-oversight-hearing
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/12/20/biden-?harris-administration-announces-historic-investment-to-electrify-u-s-
postal-service-fleet/
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December:
Russia In The Freezer
India Chills
Northern India's Big Freeze Intensifies
Cold Wave Enters Vietnam
Freezing Lows And Heavy Snows Hit U.S., More To Come
Kashmir Freezes At -18c (-0.4f)
Below Average Antarctic Plateau
Another Round Of Lake-Effect Snow
Cold Waves Lifting Natural Gas Prices
Snow Returns To Scotland And Wider Europe
Global Temperature Tumbles
Antarctic Sea Ice Recovery
Severe Cold Hits Pakistan
Florida Set For Record Cold
Snowy November At Red Mountain
U.S. Battered By Cold And Record Snow
Parts Of Ontario Under A Meter Of Snow
Early-December To Deliver Another Burial To Europe
November:
Six Dead As Record Snowfall Hits South Korea
Farmers In Northern China Struggle During Record Cold/Snow
Harsh Chill Grips India
Canada At -40.6c, Greenland Sees -56.3c
Record Snows Hit Siberia And Russian Far East
ECMWF Forecasts Cold Winter For Europe
Half Of China Registers Record Low Temps, Snow Records Broken
NH Snow Cover Steps Up
Record Russia Snow
Seoul's Heaviest November Snow Since Records Began (In 1907)
Arctic Blast To Impact 230 Million Americans
+ U.S. Cold Front Sends Natgas Futures Soaring Amid Falling Production
India's Cold Wave
Israel's First Snows Of The Season
31 Inches Hit Ukraine
Parts Of Russia Buried
Big White
Northern Hemisphere Burial
Record Cold Headed For Greenland
France Sees Heavy Snow
Turkey Blanketed
Winter Arrives In The U.S.
Record Snowfall In Calgary
Beijing Braces For Cold Wave
Cold, Snowy Europe
England's Lowest Temp Since 2014
Ireland Hits Record Electric Demand
Fierce Winter Forecast For India
Record Snow Clips The U.S.
UK Issued Fresh Snow Warnings
Global Cooling And Storminess
Record Cold And Heavy Snow Grip The Uk
Norway Chills
Harsh Freeze Sweeps Siberia And Mongolia