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2024-07-31 Home Front: Politix
Kamala Harris' $5 billion green bus failure shows she can't even handle the small stuff
[NYPOST] From the border disaster all the way down to the small stuff, presumptive Dem nominee Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut, Joe's intended successor'...
’ record, like that of President Biden, is one of spectacular failure.

The latest case in point? A green school bus boondoggle.

In 2022, Harris was front and center screaming about how wonderful it was that the feds were poised to burn about $5 billion over five years to build electric school bus fleets as part of the 2021 infrastructure package that Biden signed into law.

Now? Fewer than 7% of the districts initially set up with the program have actually completed the switch to electric vehicles.

Huge numbers of districts have withdrawn from the program because their school boards opposed it, or because of the costly infrastructure upgrades necessary to charge the buses.

The project never made fiscal sense.

As one superintendent put it, "This only makes economic sense if the bus is paid for with a grant like we received. The cost is so prohibitive that the cost savings are not worth it."

As the Washington Free Beacon, which first reported on the fiasco, noted, the electric buses are three times more expensive, and replacing the entire nation’s fleet would top $200 billion.

It’s beyond astonishing that at a moment when America’s standardized test scores have plummeted, violence and chaos plague its public schools and ideologues in teachers unions have commandeered the education process, Harris would even consider praising the idea of funneling billions to districts that can’t even use the money.

That’s how hard-left zealots like Harris think.

Yet the tragicomedy here is that she and the rest of Team Biden couldn’t even manage this properly — yet continued handing out mountains of cash for the program.
Posted by Fred 2024-07-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

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