Plug In America Urges Action on USPS Gas Fleet Purchase
Urgent! Tell the federal government the USPS must go electric! The United States Postal Service has decided to spend over $11 billion to replace its aging delivery vehicle fleet with aging technology. Of the 165,000 vehicles being purchased, only 10% will be electric, leaving the remaining 90% as polluting, outdated vehicles that will still be on the road in the 2040s. This is despite the voices of people across the nation and direction from the Biden administration.
We are now in the age of the electric vehicle. We know about the cost savings, elimination of air pollution, and reduction of devastating climate change impacts that demand a switch to EVs. The USPS’s plan falls far short of this promising future and, to add insult to injury, USPS mechanics will still be working on transmissions and spark plugs 20 years from now when they should be trained for the new technology that will be actually used then. There is no reason for this madness to come to fruition.
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