Post Office Purchase of Gasoline
Trucks Seems to Defy Biden Order
Bloomberg News,
by
Ari Natter
&
Todd Shields
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
2/24/2021 6:52:33 PM
The U.S. Postal Service currently plans for only 10% of its new truck fleet to be electric, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Wednesday, angering environmentalists who say the move flies in the face of a White House executive order to electrify the government’s vehicles. DeJoy’s revelation in a hearing before a House panel comes the day after the Postal Service announced that Wisconsin-based maker of military trucks, Oshkosh Corp., had won a long-delayed $6 billion contract to replace the service’s fleet of gas-guzzling postal trucks. The news sent the stock of Workhorse Group Inc., the only all-electric vehicle maker in
Reply 1 - Posted by:
JayD 2/24/2021 6:54:09 PM (No. 707226)
They need to have dependable vehicles to deliver all the mail-in votes.
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Absolutely no reason this entire fleet should not be all electric.
They don't travel much more than a few miles per day, and it would reduce the expense of providing what is expected to be a rising cost (gasoline).
But, what this also clearly indicates, they aren't anywhere near ready to support such a massive endeavor yet, or within the 10 years it will take to rollout all of those 165,000 vehicles.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 2/24/2021 7:15:16 PM (No. 707248)
They would have to put in expensive charging station s.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
GO3 2/24/2021 7:21:39 PM (No. 707254)
Are there any environmentalists who aren’t angry?
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Can the Biden mob get anything right? Anything?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/24/2021 7:37:18 PM (No. 707265)
Nobody replaces their entire fleet in a year. The fleet consists of vehicles of varying ages, and only a percentage are replaced each year, and that is what is allowable in the annual budget. Common sense should not have to be explained, and I think it is wasting time with these idiots.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 2/24/2021 7:44:03 PM (No. 707269)
I think they are counting on ever-increasing subsidies going from the Marxists to the USPS. Somewhat akin to New York City salivating over billions of Federal dollars for their subway and restaurants - and little going to red-states with environmental disasters (see: Texas, 2021).
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 2/24/2021 7:49:24 PM (No. 707270)
Where are the charging stations? Are there enough windmills to power them? Screw the environmentalists!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Vesicant 2/24/2021 7:52:39 PM (No. 707271)
Angry, outraged, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
padiva 2/24/2021 8:21:13 PM (No. 707288)
The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/24/2021 8:29:19 PM (No. 707295)
This is why Pelosi heavily invested in Tesla.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
sanspeur 2/24/2021 8:41:10 PM (No. 707303)
#2 unicorn farhts are frozen this year & pixie , the dust supplier has woo-flu ,sooo how ya gonna charge electrical stuff ? close yer eyes & click yer heels ? or filthy (s) coal ,clean nukes ? You are so ignorant of where /how things are made ..i vote for you driving electric , bye felicia , eat my dust
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Fosterdad 2/24/2021 10:12:15 PM (No. 707345)
The decision was entirely predictable. Oshkosh trucks are made in Wisconsin, which is a swing state. Workhorse trucks are made in Ohio, which has become solidly Republican.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
sg 2/24/2021 10:12:53 PM (No. 707346)
Postal vehicles probably log a lot of daily mileage, particularly in rural areas, so range is definitely an issue. Also, USPS has been working on this project for six years or more, long before electric vehicles were anywhere near their current state of commercialization, which is still pretty much in its infancy. The contract specs were drawn up several years ago (hence the prototypes) and were probably finalized well over a year ago. The bidders on the contract were working with a set of specific requirements for engines and transmissions. To snap your fingers and say, the fleet shall be electric is nonsense. Enviros really, really, truly have to grow up, have some appreciation of what it takes to develop such a vehicle (or any industrial project), and live in the real world. For all their outrage, the might as well stomp their feet at the tides.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Gallo3 2/24/2021 10:35:35 PM (No. 707362)
Contract. Them Out.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon 2/24/2021 10:42:28 PM (No. 707367)
In other news, Hunter Biden named to new position on board of obscure Wisconsin small truck manufacturer...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/25/2021 1:01:45 AM (No. 707410)
Right now those trucks are being ordered through a Trump Administration contract. Chances are Biden will cancel it and issue a new contract maybe to a more Democrat friendly vendor committed to “equity” if there is one out there, as that’s what Biden has been doing to all the Trump policies and programs, so why not this contract, as “equity is an important factor in designing and manufacturing those trucks?
What are they going to do with all the current serviceable trucks?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/25/2021 3:15:35 AM (No. 707461)
Electric trucks are worthless in a rural environment with miles and miles to cover.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
jacksin5 2/25/2021 11:40:43 AM (No. 707907)
If I never received another supermarket flyer, or other forms of junk mail, I be ok with it. With electronic communication the norm, and package delivery done by private vendors, why do we even need the USPS?
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The left propelled by their Gunga Dins the media always remind us that the Post Office is a private entity, until articles like this, when suddenly they are part of the government
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Someone expected to cash-in on requiring an all-electric fleet. The cost to the post office would have been staggering.