Snort...
USPS at its 'finest'???
"The Postal Service Electric Truck: A Comedy in Two Acts" is not the name of an off-broadway musical. But if someone writes it, I want royalties.
The story is a familiar one when discussing the efficacy (or lack thereof) of EVs. Joe Biden, bless his departing soul, thought that the United States Postal Service should set an example for Americans by using electric trucks to move the mail around. He and the Democrats stuffed $3 billion into the farcically misnamed Inflation Reduction Act as a down payment to force the postal service to purchase 60,000 electric postal trucks at an eventual cost of $10 billion.
What happened next was worthy of Buster Keaton or the Keystone Kops.
Defense contractor Oshkosh got the contract and not only proceeded to screw it up but also kept the bad news from the Postal Service brass for more than a year.
Full article, HERE from PJ Media.
Soooo, 3 billion has got 93 trucks delivered... That's a 'tad' expensive...
Like new fighter expensive...
And they are building ONE a day, not the 80 they were supposed to be doing. Seems to oh, a 'bit' of a problem here, or is it just me?
We know EVs are a failure in rural areas, extreme cold, etc. but USPS is supposed to use these things in ALL climates and locations.
Something tells me our mail is going to be even slower being delivered than it is now...
Every EV out there has all or some of its components made in China. So go track the money on that sale, even though Oshkosh—I thought they made children's clothes?—has its name on the bill. But, hey, the "Big Guy" got his cut on that deal. It looks like the rest of us can just go pound sand. 🤦♂️
"Griftin' the night away..."
Come on, sing it with me!
We need to bring back the Pillory and Debtor's prison, just for companies/people who do stuff like this. Since Corporations aren't actually people, maybe make a thing so that when they are bailed out, they have to pay all the money back over a 10 year period, like a mortgage, and their top brass and shareholders only get 10% of their pay/dividends until it's paid off. Would encourage them to pay it back faster.