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2 ideas could make getting them easier
Posted By: Ribicon, 3/22/2021 12:52:24 PM
As support grows for increasing the number of electric vehicles to reduce air pollution, environmentalists and activists are turning their sights on school buses. Now, the big yellow buses are almost exclusively powered by diesel engines, but that could slowly change. Gov. Phil Murphy included electric school buses when he announced plans last month for the state to help fund $100 million in grants to help towns buy heavy-duty electric vehicles and build charging infrastructure to meet goals to reduce emissions.(Snip) A full-sized 40-foot electric school bus can cost $230,000 to $400,000 per vehicle, two to almost four times the cost
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Battery-powered vehicles don't work well in extreme cold, which still happens in NJ despite Global Warming. If the goal is cleaner air, why not simply remove the smog-producing ethanol from the gasoline, and scrap two costly Green boondoggles in one shot? Answer: because USA agrees that profits at Archer Daniels Midland are more important than children's lungs, or keeping money in workers' pockets instead of bleeding them dry at every turn.