Electric Vehicles Enter the 'Total Failure' Phase of Their Existence
Electric Vehicles Enter the 'Total Failure' Phase of Their Existence
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Electric School Buses
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Detroit News (1/23/24) column: "If there is a saving grace in Michigan spending $125 million in 2024 on electric school buses, it’s that we can't afford many of them.
Almost every big purchase of electric school buses you hear about in Michigan traces back to one source: the Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA’s Clean School Bus Program is spending $5 billion over five years, 2022 to 2026, underwriting electric buses for schools that couldn’t afford them otherwise.
To let the EPA tell the story:
the electric school bus is magic.
It makes the air cleaner.
It saves money in fuel costs.
It can power school buildings in the event of power outages.
The EPA actually says this.
But magic comes at a high cost.
So far, the EPA says, it has spent $1.84 billion from the fund, on 5,103 electric buses.
That averages out to more than $360,000 per bus.
Diesel buses cost between $65,000 and $100,000 each...
Washington, D.C. is the rare place where lawmakers don’t have to balance the budget or even pass a budget.
When spending is higher than revenues, they just turn on the printer.
When the bill comes due, they borrow more money from the future.
Untethered from the physical realities of money, the Biden administration is printing $5 billion to build a fantasy world, where school buses prevent childhood asthma and keep neighborhoods powered up — after $400,000 in start-up costs, of course.
But make no mistake, your kids and grandkids will pay for every last one."
JB says: I question the highlighted sentence.
EV's and Road Use Taxes
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MO writes:
In theory a use tax, if U don't buy motor fuel U don't have to pay for the roads & bridges. (there is no road tax on aviation fuel or farm fuel, for example)
In the People's Republic of Washington, the rocket scientist solons thought it was kinda unfair that the EVs would get to use the roads for free, so they proposed an additional fee for the license plates.
U can imagine how long that idea lasted; one could hear the howling all the way to Little Greta's Sweden.
States - at least the impoverished ones - struggle to keep up with road and bridge maintenance given the amount they collect in fuel taxes.
But this is because they spend so much of that supposedly dedicated money on things like skateboard parks, midnight basketball games, and the prize of all, Moonbeam Brown's Train to Nowhere.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/32810/switching-to-electric-vehicles-...
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A Decidedly Useful Tax.
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The gas tax can be complicated, but the basics are, both federal and state governments impose a surcharge that's built into the final price at the pump.
They're nothing new—the federal government has been imposing gas taxes since the 1930s, and some states did it even earlier.
The gas station itself is then responsible for paying over the tax to the state and federal Highway Trust Funds. Federal officials pool that money and distribute it back out to state and local agencies for infrastructure repairs, new construction and transit subsidies.
(Despite the name, the Highway Trust Fund is also the primary source of federal mass transit funding.)
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Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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