Posted on 12/06/2023 5:54:44 AM PST by Red Badger
Solyndra part two.
Democrats the experts of Junk
Central Planning at its finest.
Someone needs to look at Proterra’s books - and see how much money they donated to democrats - and who those democrats were...
If we just mandated that ALL Public Employee’s nationwide exclusively used Mass Public Transit using conveyances free from emitting Carbon, The problem will be solved.
Why did they stop using those Electric Trolley bus/things , LOL
OOOh....deja vu ??
Once upon a time many cities had electric street cars getting their electricity from wires. They could bring those back
My thought as well.
And
...in 2020 Proterra received a PPP loan of $10 million that was forgiven...
AND
...California has given Proterra at least $6 million in grants.
AND THEY STILL WENT BROKE!.........................
Just put a windmill and solar panel on top of each bus!................
Government is incompetent at everything...except graft.
Years ago, the politicians of Tallahassee gleefully reported to the world that they had purchased the first all-electric battery powered bus. Tallahassee was leading the world into an all-electric, clean, sustainable future...so take that all you big city laggards. They quietly retired it as it apparently never made even one trip on its assigned route.
When people complained that the city owned bus system was always running nearly empty of passengers, they purchased all new busses with graphics over the windows so people couldn’t see in. The ridership was so low it was proposed that they simply buy some vans, and the riders could call the vans and be picked up at home. They’d save a huge amount off the operations budget. The city turned down the opportunity to do this as there’s something magical about having an efficient public transit system even if few people use it. Even the local paper, “The Tallahassee Democrat,” mentioned that not one person on the city’s administration staff used the busses.
"Oh Liza, dear Liza, there's a hole in my bucket!"
Ain’t Communism wonderful.
FAKE CRISIS.
Apparently SF still runs their streetcars.
https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/muni/historic-streetcars
Chassis cracks a “cosmetic problem.” LOL! Steel and aluminum don’t just spontaneously crack. Engineering failure causes cracks and they just keep propagating until it releases all the stress, usually by folding up in the middle of the road.
And yet another example of the failure of the Central Planning model for operating an efficient and responsible government.
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