Welcome to the Hardcore Husky Forums. Folks who are well-known in Cyberland and not that dumb.
We need a general tweet of the day thread
Comments
-
Joe Biden is a criminal.PurpleThrobber said:
Our corporate media is corrupt.
Our intel community is corrupt.
The DOJ is corrupt.
Big tech is corrupt.
Our borders are no longer sovereign.
Our elections can not be trusted.
Our culture is rotting away.
No one in power can be trusted.
Our Country is broken.
And no one seems to notice or care. -
Quite the Welcome Committee for the Sun Bowl fans.46XiJCAB said:
Joe Biden is a criminal.PurpleThrobber said:
Our corporate media is corrupt.
Our intel community is corrupt.
The DOJ is corrupt.
Big tech is corrupt.
Our borders are no longer sovereign.
Our elections can not be trusted.
Our culture is rotting away.
No one in power can be trusted.
Our Country is broken.
And no one seems to notice or care. -
What does it take to buy an electric school bus? Nothing. Another great economic and scientific lesson from our government. Thanks dems.
https://www.axios.com/2022/12/19/electric-school-buses
Federal and state governments are practically giving away electric school buses, and if your local district doesn't have its hand up yet, it should. The math is a no-brainer.
Why it matters: Exhaust from diesel school buses makes kids sick and curbs cognitive development. Plus, diesel buses emit greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.
Electric school buses are a cleaner, safer alternative, and they're cheaper to operate — it costs about 14 cents a mile for electricity compared to 49 cents per mile for diesel fuel, according to Blue Bird, a leading school bus manufacturer.
They can also act as giant batteries to store surplus energy when not in use. That means cash-strapped districts can earn money from their parked buses by selling power back to the grid during times of peak demand.
The catch: An electric school bus costs $350,000 to $450,000 — three to four times a traditional diesel bus — and most districts can't afford the upfront expense, despite the long-term savings.
What's happening: A bunch of new government incentives make replacing aging diesel fleets an easy call.
The five-year, $5 billion Clean School Bus Program, approved in November 2021 as part of the infrastructure law and run by the Environmental Protection Agency, pays school districts up to $375,000 to replace a diesel bus with an electric one.
The government offers another $20,000 for charging infrastructure, for a total of $395,000 per bus purchased.
In October, EPA awarded the program's first $1 billion to fund about 2,500 school bus replacements in nearly 400 districts.
Priority was given to low-income, rural and tribal communities like Dearborn, Michigan, near Detroit, which took delivery of its first electric school bus last week and expects to buy 18 more with a $7.1 million federal grant.
Many states offer generous rebates, too, including California, Colorado, New York, Connecticut and others.
Some local utilities also provide financial incentives to support school bus electrification. -
They don't work. Talked to a Spokane transportation mechanic said they have 14 electric buses. They can run only a couple. No way to charge them. Can't run long enough. Can't turn them around quickly, no trained mechanics etc. Biggest problem? Avista says they need an entire new substation for the chargers and Spokane has to pay for it! So it ain't happening! They sit parked, rotting.
-
City buses run all day long. It's a bit easier with a school bus which may have a couple of short runs in the morning and then afternoon. So, there is an opening after the morning run for a fast charge, if you have fast chargers and sufficient grid access. But again, this is all just expensive BS virtue signaling. If a school district wants to buy an electric bus, have at it. Just no federal or state money should be involved. The district would then need to explain why they are spending 4 times the cost of a diesel bus to voting parents.Sledog said:They don't work. Talked to a Spokane transportation mechanic said they have 14 electric buses. They can run only a couple. No way to charge them. Can't run long enough. Can't turn them around quickly, no trained mechanics etc. Biggest problem? Avista says they need an entire new substation for the chargers and Spokane has to pay for it! So it ain't happening! They sit parked, rotting.
-
At my PD we purchased an electric parking enforcement vehicle. It wasn't really purchased it was paid for by AQMD. Damn thing didn't work for two years. It was back at the manufacturer for that long. After it was returned it was used but could only do one shift, if they were lucky, on a charge. So it would take twice the number of vehicles to outfit them with electric. Newer ones probably do better but nothing works for shiftwork really.
-
Somehow the tech-immersed generation has trained itself to put up with all kinds of shit that isn't reliable, doesn't work, chronically underperforms and fails to deliver on its promises.Sledog said:They don't work. Talked to a Spokane transportation mechanic said they have 14 electric buses. They can run only a couple. No way to charge them. Can't run long enough. Can't turn them around quickly, no trained mechanics etc. Biggest problem? Avista says they need an entire new substation for the chargers and Spokane has to pay for it! So it ain't happening! They sit parked, rotting.
Back in the day, people rejected crappy shit. Now they're content with replacing shit annually and filling up landfills with toxic waste while polluting the air with Amazon and UPS vans all day & night everywhere.
Turns out a hell of a lot of my fellow citizens are feel-good, hyper-emotional, statist, authoritarian idiots. -
