Biden to replace entire gov’t fleet of 650K cars & trucks with electric vehicles

[Counselor706]

President Joe Biden vowed on Monday to replace the entire fleet of government cars and trucks with "clean electric vehicles" during his presidency as a way to lead the charge on climate issues and make good on his promise to launch a "clean energy revolution."

"The federal government also owns an enormous fleet of vehicles, which we're going to replace with clean electric vehicles made right here in America made by American workers creating ... a million autoworker jobs and clean energy and vehicles that are net-zero emissions," Biden said during a signing ceremony for his new "Buy America" executive order.

"This will be the largest mobilization of public investment and procurement, infrastructure, and [research and development] since World War Two," he added.

The move will affect more than 645,000 cars and trucks currently owned by the federal government, according to the General Services Administration, and is expected to cost at least $20 billion. Roughly one-third of the government vehicles are operated by the U.S. Postal Service.

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[LLCox]

Good, the price of gas will go down more.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

What a great POTUS. Glad I voted for him.

 

[LupusDei]

That's quite bold and he would likely fail to do it completely, inside his first term at least, but it's a really commendable intention.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

A typical passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year


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[hulmule]

IMO, the problem with the US we dont have enough GOOD public transit. Need more high speed trains through out the US. That would lower cars on the road. 650k of electric cars hummm Have to charge them somehow?? So closing coal burners, shame in some ways cause they did have scrubbers on them and the by product was used in making drywall. Nuke's store all the waste on site. They need to recycle that waste ! But to expensive ! Ah windmills, but they bury those blades instead of recycle those.. Sad we dont do more . So where do get all the energy to recharge all these electric cars??

 

[pointless]

the problem is most of our cities are intentionally designed to make public transport a pain in the ass.

 

[bellisarius]

the problem is most of our cities are intentionally designed to make public transport a pain in the ass.

Half true. Any city that experienced its big growth after the automobile became popular sucks as far as any meaningful public transport is concerned. And that was driven by the public, not the politicians. The people got what they demanded. So it was intentional, but not anything approaching a grand conspiracy.

Regarding high speed rail. It will never be anything but a monumental Albatross tied around the taxpayers neck in the US outside high density urban/suburban areas like the NE corridor.

 

[domroger]

the problem is most of our cities are intentionally designed to make public transport a pain in the ass.

They could be changed ,Holland is a good example ,but I doubt they will because of the US love of the car .

 

[WillJ8787]

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Yay!!!!! Whoop....whoop!

100% for this!