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Democrats’ all-electric USPS fleet sees each truck come with a $6.8 million price tag, yes, $6.8 Million EACH. **D.C. NIFO**

Posted by freedomforall 1 week ago to Government
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Excerpt:
"A Biden administration plan to create a ‘green’ fleet of postal vehicles has churned out a mere 250 electric mail trucks in just over two years — after shelling out taxpayer funds meant to build thousands…

The nearly $10 billion project — which called for more than 35,000 battery-powered US Postal Service (USPS) vehicles to be completed by September 2028 — was funded in part by $3 billion in funding from former President Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.


(I suspect the Post item has a typo, because as you see above, the number from the USPS is 45,000, not 35,000.)

So far, the disbursed IRA funds are around $1.7 billion, which means that if Congress is able to claw back the $1.3 billion still allocated for the project, each of these 250 trucks have cost U.S. taxpayers a minimum of $6.8 million a piece—
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The biggest issue with the program? The lucky contractor doesn’t even know what they’re doing:

‘This is the bottom line: We don’t know how to make a damn truck,’ one person involved with the manufacturing process told the Washington Post."
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Your tax dollars at work ... making your enemies in D.C. wealthier while you eat dog food.


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  • Posted by 3 days, 23 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    The fedgov has been treating foreigners better than Americans at least since 1860.
    I wish Americans would realize they are getting the short straw all the time and act accordingly, as they do when shopping.
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  • Posted by 3 days, 23 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    I like grapefruit, too. Probably making some marmalade this weekend. Sweet anti-cold-virus treatment, or so I tell myself. ;^)
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 4 days, 1 hour ago in reply to this comment.
    I used to do the same. Set our heat on 50 and use the woodstove to raise it when we got home. Worked great! My kids (like all kids) whined, "turn up the heat". I said, "No problem. You can do it. The thermostat is just outside. Go get some wood and start the stove."
    I got to be the up hill, both ways, old dad, and loved it!
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 4 days, 1 hour ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, other than probably being more correct, RFK is following a similar trend in some ways. Others the opposite.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 4 days, 1 hour ago in reply to this comment.
    Sorry for the loss of the oaks (beautiful trees), but that can be a lot of fuel. The pin oak in my yard is still young and goes up about 70 feet.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 4 days, 1 hour ago in reply to this comment.
    Thank you, FFA! It appears we are both correct. The gist of the illustration stuck with me, but I couldn't pull out the details in my old brain. I figured later I would thumb through my printed version of AS when I got the time and revisit this thread. I'm grateful you had a digital version to search through. Again, thank you. I like grapefruit (all kinds) so maybe that's why this stuck with me.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 4 days, 10 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    One hopes beyond hope, for one last hurrah, for one last chance to experience what life was meant to be like, before the end of these times; . . and one last chance to make our case for ever lasting life . . .

    This is what Trump is trying to give us, I know, he knows.
    The rest is up to us
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  • Posted by katrinam41 4 days, 11 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    I used to help Mom fill her Green Stamp book to get kitchen appliances. Life was much more simple then, before I was exposed to the real world. This Brave New World is total crap. Honor and courage are nearly a myth, the Lie is the Truth in this twisted unreality, my grandchildren may be swallowed alive. I survive because I know what was and what could be again, but only my grandchildren's grandchildren may enjoy the same joyous existence one day.
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  • Posted by 4 days, 16 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    We just ordered a new chain saw to 'harvest' two giant oaks that fell a couple weeks back in our back yard.
    One was uprooted and took down the top 40 ft of the second one.
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  • Posted by 4 days, 16 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    I have an e-copy handy. Both soybeans and grapefruit were used as examples of political corruption in AS.
    1. Railroad cars were diverted for Kip Chalmers 'mother's' harvest of spoiled soybeans in Louisiana while farmers in MN lost their crop pf wheat.
    2. A coal train was cancelled (by The Director of Unification) to provide train cars for the Smather Bros. AZ grapefruit harvest,
    and the Comet was to be cancelled so the engines could pull the 'grapefruit express.'
    From AS:
    "The Smather brothers bought a fruit ranch in Arizona a year ago, from a man who went bankrupt
    under the Equalization of Opportunity Bill. He had owned the ranch for thirty years.
    The Smather brothers were in the punchboard business the year before.
    They bought the ranch by means of a loan from Washington under a project for
    the reclamation of distressed areas, such as Arizona. The Smather brothers have friends in Washington."
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  • Posted by mccannon01 4 days, 16 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    I still burn wood in the winter to supplement gas. Lefties hate that for many reasons. NY lefties have tried to outlaw the practice for several years running now. The wood stove in my workshop puts out dry heat, which doesn't cause condensation and rust on my tools and machinery.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 4 days, 16 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    It's been a long time since I read the novel, but I recall an episode within where a government bureaucrat decided the people would be more healthy if they ate grapefruit so set in motion a big government program by edict to grow and deliver grapefruit - ended in total failure. Whenever I see another government boondoggle, like California's high speed rail, I think, "There's another Rand grapefruit.". Solyndra qualified as well.

    Maybe another Gulcher who has better recall than me can help us out here.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 4 days, 19 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    I used to marvel that a $0.15 stamp, would have someone pickup a letter out of my mailbox and deliver it anywhere in the USA straight to someone elses mailbox.

    Clearly before the ROT set in!
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  • Posted by fairbro 4 days, 19 hours ago
    Contracts are "Set-Aside" for DEI contractors, yes, they are not qualified - "Do not know what they are doing." Similar throughout Pentagon.
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  • Posted by 4 days, 19 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    It isn't Rand's CO and it will be decades to change, if ever.
    Go where you are treated best. Right now, that isn't the USA.
    CO wants to be CA.
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  • Posted by AmericanWoman 4 days, 20 hours ago
    And now all this State of confusion until we can get Polis OUT of the Governors house in Colorado is looking to have ALL gas items changed to electric in every house. AND, those who are serviced by gas for heat, electric heat does nothing in the windy, snowy, downright cold winter months they also want user of gas that they are going to try to force switching all to electric to HELP PAY for those who cannot afford to change. It never ends with these Democratic morons.
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 4 days, 20 hours ago in reply to this comment.
    Wasn't it soybeans? Rand was not entirely unfamiliar with the perils of agriculture, either. I believe that she and her husband Frank tried growing alfalfa. Probably failed. Even her Russian heritage ("Wife strong, lift traktor") didn't help except perhaps to persuade them cut their losses early and give up.
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