Posted on 10/20/2009 7:19:24 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady
An energy analyst is outraged that taxpayer dollars are being used for a bailout of the bus industry that's comparable to the now defunct "cash for clunkers" program.
National Journal reports the Transportation Department's Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) program has spent nearly half its $100-million grant budget to replace diesel buses with hybrid-electric and fully electric models.
The "TIGGER" grants are part of President Obama's $787 billion stimulus program and are designed to serve two purposes: stimulate the economy and clean the environment.
(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...
Hey, They gotta spend that TRILLION on something.
It never seems to end.
TIGGER program? Definitely racist!
Seems like buses powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) would have been a much better idea. A lot of energy is lost in the transmission of electricity over power lines, so it takes more natural gas to run a battery-powered bus than it takes to just run the bus’ diesel engine on CNG. This is the same problem with battery-powered cars—a lot of energy lost in power line transmission. This is probably pork for some obscure company that makes electric buses located in some key congeressman’s district. It’s a joke really; there’s not doubt the operating costs of a CNG-powered bus are much lower than an electric or hybrid-electric bus.
Where the hell does Obama figure all this money is going to come from? Bail out this, bail out that … just printing money will not pay the bulldog. Is his ultimate goal to make the late great America a banana republic? If so, he is well on his way in achieving his goal.
Unlike most countries that have found themselves under these circumstances, most Americans are very rebellious and jealous of their rights and are armed.
Beware Obama, be very aware.
IMHO
The pork spending never ends until a man like Reagan shows up in Washington and pulls the plug on the flow of money into the pork mill and vetos some budget bills.
NEGATIVE, NEGATIVE, NEGATIVE!
The pork spending ends when real patriots show up in Washington D.C. with pitchforks, tar and feathers, and rope!
Perhaps I should rephrase:
Instead of “Beware Obama, be very aware” I should have said “Beware Obama administration”
Don’t want the feds at my door. ;-)
Dare we say it?
“TIGGER, please!”
It also takes a back seat to the Constitution, but half the population is too Ignorant or too Stupid to notice or care.
I thought so too, sounds like...ahem.
Catch a tigger by the toe and all of that stuff....
But CNG vehicles don’t have regenerative braking.
I’d be curious to see some data on how close the regenerative braking gets you to a CNG vehicle in overall efficiency.
By the time obama gets through with our economy, we’re all gonna need his new buses.
We;ll all probably be LIVING in his buses. Why not? We will have no jobs to go to anyway.
okay. So obama is smart to give us the buses for when all that happens, right? ;)
boy do I crack myself up!
I don’t know...it could be close. But when you add in the extra maintenance costs on the hybrid drivetrain, I have no doubt the CNG bus has lower total operating costs.
Buggy Whips!
Bail out the Buggy Whip manufacturers! They’ve been hit so hard since horse powered travel fell due to the Great Recession.
How bout a hybrid CNG? compared to a regular CNG vehicle?
Actually I would like to say.....no prob, 0bozo, keep plunging ahead. That's right, you got it....keep going, etc. I want this commie pig to tank so badly he will never be a factor in anything again and will be shunned & ignored as the Kenyan usurper pres____ent who ALMOST destroyed the USA.
We need to find a way to STOP PAYING TAXES to end this madness.
Remember that most of these bus companies are already taxpayer funded
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