Biden wasting billions on electric school busses

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Thirteen years after the Obama administration first began pouring tens of billions of dollars into solar energy subsidies that did little to increase the renewable's share in electricity generation, the Biden-Harris administration has announced over $5.5 billion in funding for low- and no-emission transit vehicles as gas prices skyrocket.

In 2009, with the enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Brookings Institution estimated over $150 billion would be spent on green initiatives, including subsidies for solar energy, over the years 2009-2014.

Yet, despite Obama's massive bet on solar, more than a decade later, in 2020, solar energy still accounted for just 2.3% of total electricity generation in the U.S., according to the Energy Information Administration. During the same year, all renewable energy sources combined represented 20% of U.S. electricity generation — compared to natural gas at 40%, nuclear at 20%, and coal at 19%.

"Our transportation sector has reached a turning point," Vice President Kamala Harris declared last week in announcing an administration initiative to "expand clean public transit and school buses, reduce emissions from dirty diesel trucks, and create good-paying jobs."

"We have the technologies to transition to a zero-emission fleet," said Harris, as the White House announced $17 million in funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for electric zero-emission and low-emission school buses. "Our administration together, all of us, is working to make that possibility a reality.

"We can clean our air and protect the health of our children. We can connect all our communities for affordable, accessible, and reliable public transportation. We can address the climate crisis and grow our economy at the same time."

Gas prices averaged $4.17 per gallon last week, their highest level since 2008.

"Vice President Kamala Harris and DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg spent the afternoon promoting electric vehicles and Green New Deal policies," teeted Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) in response to the administration rollout of its clean transit initiative. "Are you kidding me? The Biden Administration could not be more tone deaf."

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Andrew Wheeler, former administrator of the EPA under former President Trump, told the John Solomon Reports podcast in October that electric vehicle batteries do not currently have a clean method of disposal.

"Right now, when you trade in your old [electric vehicle] battery, most of them are just going to warehouses and sitting in warehouses until we perfect technology to dispose of them," Wheeler explained. "And those chemicals can leach into the groundwater — we're sitting on potential Superfund sites that we're creating today that are going to plague us for the next generation if we don't do something about it."

This is another reason to vote against every Democrat on the ballot who irresponsibly supports this Green New Deal BS.  Wind and solar energy just take a different route to pollution as do electric vehicles.  There are not enough landfills in the world to contain all the refuge from the wind and solar energy and electric vehicles.  It is also another way to make the US dependent on China.