(The Center Square) –
Pennsylvania school districts wanting to transition to electric school buses may be getting help from the state in the future.
The Pennsylvania House Education Committee recently voted 14-11 along party lines to advance a bill that would provide school districts with funds to buy electric school buses and the infrastructure to support them.
House Bill 1542, sponsored by Rep. Brandon Markosek, D-Monroeville, if passed by the General Assembly, would establish an Electric School Bus Grant Program administered by the state’s Department of Education.
The program would allow interested school districts not only to apply for grants to purchase electric school buses, or ESBs, but also for funds to offset the costs of charging infrastructure and installation and depot and facility upgrades. Ongoing technical assistance will also be provided. more
And you can bet that the districts will apply because when your money can be viewed as free money it’s too good of a thing to pass up.
Do the buses currently identify as trans-electric? Or is peer pressure pushing them that way?
Is there a politician anywhere in this country that cannot spend money on something that is not needed
Money should be taken from politicians/family who made the poor business decision not the over taxed taxpayers. BS
I HATE THIS F**KING STATE and I can’t wait to move out.
This project failed in Vermont. The buses had very poor range, couldn’t handle the cold (diesel heaters were required to keep kids warm), broke down, and the companies had trouble supplying parts. For school kids’ sports they were worthless–games were long-haul with a game then a return drive–buses couldn’t handle the distance. Overall, a very expensive fail.
Racer X
WEDNESDAY, 20 DECEMBER 2023, 13:44 AT 1:44 PM
‘This project failed in Vermont. ‘
…Every Communist always thinks it will work if HE does it…
this will be an expensive disaster.
Racer X
WEDNESDAY, 20 DECEMBER 2023, 13:44 AT 1:44 PM
“This project failed in Vermont.”
…although it kind of depends on how you define “Failed”. I’m sure it made a TON of money for Democrats in grift, no-bid contracts, and kickbacks, PLUS let everyone get lots of fawning media coverage for free to put their taxpayer-funded virtue signal on full display.
So it was a total success.
From a Democrat grifter point of view.
And that’s the only one they care about…
@Briansbigfatidea – you spelled ‘profitable’ wrong.
SNS – and every female Communist wants HIM to do it so she doesn’t have to!
🙂
General Malaise
WEDNESDAY, 20 DECEMBER 2023, 13:57 AT 1:57 PM
https://youtu.be/TlTb0o2XAyg?si=HL4kNn_1hRHmvRhL
Anything that helps collapse the worthless government monopoly day prison system sooner and keeps the kids out of these indoctrination centers is great in my book.
The Left specializes in FAILURE!
… actually they wallow in it!
Hope they don’t hurt any children when these things fail. A bus depot engulfed in unquenchable fire (on earth) is going to provide heat for days on end.
Even the ICE buses could get pretty cold on those January and February mornings. I had an hour ride on the bus; if I missed the bus I could go back inside for half an hour and then walk to school.
Proterra’s a good buy right now.
penns-hell-vania…idiots on parade