The reckless push for electric vehicles at the U.S. Postal Service

[rangerrebew]

The reckless push for electric vehicles at the U.S. Postal Service
By CFACT Ed |January 3rd, 2022|Energy|1 Comment

BY PAUL STEIDLER

As Democrats regroup and forge ahead with plans to implement components of the Build Back Better legislation killed by Senator Joe Manchin, calls for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to be given billions to electrify its vehicle fleet are likely to soon reach a fever pitch.

USPS is a high-profile, well-regarded institution through which progressives want to unveil new programs. Progressives pulled out all the stops to provide USPS with electric vehicle funding in 2021 and will likely double down in 2022.

Republicans and fiscal conservatives in Washington, D.C. should push back hard. Electric vehicle subsidies for USPS epitomize what is wrong in Washington, D.C. and how proven, time-tested financial restraint and related guard rails are being eviscerated.

USPS needs a new delivery vehicle fleet, and it has been on the path to purchasing the vehicles long before Build Back Better was ever conceived. After years of study, USPS announced on February 23 that it was purchasing 50,000 to 165,000 next generation delivery vehicles over the next 10 years.

https://www.cfact.org/2022/01/03/the-reckless-push-for-electric-vehicles-at-the-u-s-postal-service/

[rangerrebew]

The military is pushing hard, too, but I don't think climate change outweighs CRT, though.

[Kamaji]

Most of the USPS's fleet would make the perfect fleet for electrification.

That and urban taxis really represent where the first major forays into electric vehicles should happen.  But, without subsidies (other than the fact the government will be buying vehicles in the case of USPS), and without gimmes.

This sort of fleet testing is a perfect way to get some of the long-term issues of electrics worked out.