I’m shocked! Are you shocked?
Less than 40% of electric school buses purchased under a multibillion-dollar Biden-era program have been delivered, new statistics released by the EPA Thursday reveal.
The slow pace of deliveries, coupled with concerns over the reliability of the EV buses, have prompted many school districts to pull out of the $5 billion “Clean School Bus Program,” for which some $2.7 billion in taxpayer funds has already been doled out — and almost exclusively on electric buses versus other alternative fuel vehicles.
“Instead of following Congress’ directives to effectively provide safe and reliable transportation for American school kids, the Biden-Harris administration rushed money out the door without enough thought or oversight,” Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement.
I mean, seriously, this is government in a nutshell: rush the money out, it disappears into graft, waste, overspending, people’s pockets. It can pass through multiple NGOs, who all take their cut to pass it on, before finally being spent. Is this fully legal, or is there a way to prosecute for defrauding the government, even though it has essentially been normalized?
“This carelessness resulted in 90% of the money going to ‘buy’ electric school buses; yet over 5 years later, there are very few tangible buses to show for it,” Zeldin continued. “In essence, American taxpayer dollars vanished into thin air, and our children were left without school buses.”
Under the program guidelines, 50% of the federal money was meant for EV buses while the other half was intended for other types of “clean” transportation methods, like biofuel, liquified natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG), hydrogen or propane vehicles.
And, for the most part, there are tons of problems with getting the buses delivered, and, for those that were delivered, keeping them running.
The EPA pegged the average cost per bus purchased through the Biden-era program at over $1 million.
New diesel and propane buses typically cost less than $200,000. The average EV school bus sells for about $300,000-$400,000.
I’ve mentioned this a few times. What a bargain!
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Out of 330 school buses in total, Philadelphia has 20 electric buses. The School District of Philadelphia was awarded a grant of $17 million to buy 20 more, but that was January of 2024, and with any luck the Trump Administration put the kibosh on that one.
From February of 2022:
There’s more at the original.
The guesstimated fuel savings, of course, are based on guesstimates as to how much electricity will cost. But if the electric buses cost $365,000, rather than $150,000 for diesel buses, and the annual savings from operating the buses are $5,000 per bus, it would take 43 years per bus to break even. Does the School District of Philadelphia keep its buses for an average of 43 years?
The School District of Philadelphia passed its 2026-27 school year budget, which includes many cuts, due to a projected $330 million deficit. Maybe they won’t be able to replace their 330-bus fleet with all-electrics by 2030?
The transition has accelerated in recent years, fueled by more than $2.4 billion in federal grants under the Biden administration and spurred by mandates in California, New York and other states to phase out fossil fuel models.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/nyregion/electric-school-buses.html
$2.4 Billion? Where have the hundreds of Billions gone for Donny’s stupid Middle East quagmire?
This year alone, Donny and his gang of thieves are spending $2.1 Trillion MORE than we are collecting!!
Teach whining about EV buses while cheering Donny’s spending sprees, is that most serious of conservatard sins – hypocrisy!!!!
Matthew 7:3
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”
But but what about Trump?
Standard response to gloss over and justify the corruption of the Biden administration.
Fucking hypocrite.
MAGA47 Motherfucker!
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The average cost of a bus under that program was 1 million?? The cost of an EV buus is 300,000 dollars?
The he math seems flawed. No posters noted that ?
Use a calculator if you can’t see it
The article doesn’t say that.
How much difference per year is the operating cost per year over the 15 year service life?
Is cost the only thing that is important ? Today’s diesel price is 6.50 per gallon and trending up. What will that price be in the yearc 2040? We do know that historically the girl savings of electric over diesel is generally 66%. Avg diesel consumption of a diesel is 1700 gal @6.50 totals about 12000 per year. Electric would save $8000 per year for 15 years or $120000 over the service lifetime of 1 bus
How much is the health of a student worth?
The average cost of 1 student per school day is over $90. Do you really want to save a few bucks by gassing those students and others by saving a few bucks a day ?
Tesla just received its biggest single semi truck order from a consortium of shoppers totaling 2,500 trucks.
As for charging time? The new Chinese batteries charge in less than 5 minutes 10% to 70%,0good for 200 miles. This is 2026 (not 2016) what do you think batteries will be like in year 2035?
Yes, that’s why “MTA flips the switch from electric busses back to natural gas. As electric bus technology struggles, the state is preparing to buy 650 new busses powered by natural gas” The City Reporter, Sept. 10, 2026
Our new MTA buses that do use natural gas on a diesel cycle are HYBRIDS
Diesel electric with batteries
THe transition to electrified vehicles can not happen quickly but it will happen. NYC MTA expects it will take until 2040, 15 more years to go 100% carbon free. Change is happening quickly. In 2016 The Nissan Leaf could only go 50 miles, now Lucid Motors offers 500 mile ranges, and new Chinese solid state batteries are 200 miles on a 5 minute charge. The average car on the road in USA is about 12 years old. At some point in the future most of the people driving fossil fuel cars will be poor people.
Take note of Tesla’s biggest order yet 2,500 semi trucks in a single order. Electric “fuel” costs are 66% cheaper than diesel energy can be.
Batteries keep getting better and cheaper. Diesel will always be more expensive.
Walmart just ordered 4000 Canoo mini vans for its home delivery fleet
“The transition to electric vehicles…” Johnny-the question is-why should it happen?
The current record total charging timr for crossing
NYC to LA 2800 miles is less than 2.5 hours total charging time.
16 years ago the Nissan Leaf debuted. It had a range of 50 miles.
The longest range now available in USA is over 500 miles
Old people like to look into the past. Not the future.
“Old people” like to look to reliable sources
Teach typed: “…this is government in a nutshell: rush the money out, it disappears into graft, waste, overspending, people’s pockets. It can pass through multiple NGOs, who all take their cut to pass it on, before finally being spent. Is this fully legal, or is there a way to prosecute for defrauding the government, even though it has essentially been normalized?”
Good questions!!! This year the United States government will have to borrow over $2 Trillion ($2,000,000,000,000) this year to pay for War(s), Social Security, golf, Medicare, $3 Billion a day in interest payments, Medicaid etc.