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Postal service plans to spend billions on EV chargers and roughly 66,000 new trucks Contract cancellation likely part of sweeping executive order on EVsTrump transition weighs plan to cancel USPS contracts to build large EV fleet
Dec 6 (Reuters) - Donald Trump’s transition team is considering canceling the U.S. Postal Service’s contracts to electrify its delivery fleet, as part of a broader suite of executive orders targeting electric vehicles, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
The move, which could be unveiled in the early days of Trump’s administration that begins on Jan. 20, is in line with Trump’s campaign promises to roll back President Joe Biden’s efforts to decarbonize U.S. transportation to fight climate change – an agenda Trump has said is unnecessary and potentially damaging to the economy.
Reuters has previously reported that Trump is planning to kill a $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric vehicle purchases, and plans to roll back Biden’s stricter fuel-efficiency standards.
The sources told Reuters that Trump’s transition team is now reviewing how it can unwind the postal service’s multibillion-dollar contracts, including with Oshkosh (OSK.N), and Ford (F.N) for tens of thousands of battery-driven delivery trucks and charging stations.
Oshkosh shares fell by roughly 5% to 105.65 per share after the Reuters report.
More EVs means lower gas prices.
This drives up gas prices.
Killing the tax credit drives up gas prices.
It’s quite remarkable how economically m ignorant a large section of America is. Supply and demand is the easiest model to understand and yet these voters have been positioned to work against their own best interest at a basic economic level.
And this is only one a hundreds of examples. Fascinating time to be alive.
More EVs means lower gas prices.
This drives up gas prices.
I know, it’s almost as though the multinational oil corporations and their shareholders who backed all three of Trump’s campaigns want higher oil and gas prices for some reason… what could that be?
That part at least makes sense.
It’s all the voters with their massive gas guzzling vehicles that are voting against their best interest. Over and over again.
The fact is that you’re politically engaged and the average voter is not.
They’re not dumb or anything, but politics and economics are not things for which they look past their noses. Politics and economics are complex topics and that’s why Trump’s antics and tactics work so well. He stays in the headlines and gets people feeling like they’re part of a team. For a similar example, loads of folks don’t pay attention to NFL players, teams, and coaches during the off season… but once games start happening, allegiances are taken. Even if a neighboring or different franchise might have a better chance of winning (thus make you feel like a winner by proxy) you might still just cheer on the team that first caught your attention/is in your geographic area. People don’t want a sermon and they definitely don’t want to be scolded… they want to be on a winning team regardless of the consequences of that choice (leopards eating faces, etc, etc).
No, thats fuckin’ dumb and people who voted for this are dumb.
I know it’s frustrating as hell, but lashing out at voters isn’t the answer. They’re not dumb, they’re just not engaged. The system of American politics keeps them disengaged on purpose.
They could at least spend 10 minutes googling before heading off to stand in line for hours to vote for some dipshit who opposes everything they think they are voting for
As I said, they may only be voting for the “team” about which they got excited and not much else. There not dumb, the American political system has set about keeping voters as passive as is possible for the purposes of exploiting them. Trump is just the latest (and most naked) bit of exploitation.
Better get my passive aggressive stickers ready
That may be true, but I saw a hot chick and she turned out to have a dick. Fascism/Hate 2024
Screw it, at least the prices will be high come next election (if we have one)
Gas prices are artificially created by OPEC… Although considering Trump is buddies with Russia and others, I could see him wanting an excuse to increase demand so they can sell more.
That control only exists as long as demand increases. They need oil revenue. Less demand means they need to increase supply to maintain revenue. Increased supply means prices fall. These are incredibly basic economic principles. Every EV sold decreases their control.
I guess I just didn’t see how whatever fraction of a percent of gas used by USPS vehicles is really going to impact a global market. Prices drop, people buy bigger cars, other countries slow changes as well, one more easy well gets permanently capped.
China’s EV market has probably been a way bigger shock to oil price than part of a percent of US gas use changing would be.
The existing fleet is past aging out, they are often held together with patch welds and duct tape in my area. Is the plan ride it until the wheels literally fall off, with no replacements in pipeline?
Actually yes. They want to privatize it so that they can make money on it. Failure is the goal.
“Failure is the goal” needs to be the subtitle of every news story for the foreseeable future.
Yeah but even if that’s the play - could private business even fill the gap? USPS stretches the final miles deep into places not profitable to deliver to. Businesses, doing business stuff, use it to economically have their products available to the rural communities that voted these policies in… it’s all so confusing.
Is mailing a letter automated space communism? Sheesh.
And ironically, it’s the flyover deep red parts of the country that are the most rural, and therefore the most unprofitable legs of these delivery services. As with so many other GOP policies, it would mostly impact their supporters.
The worse it gets, the more they’ll blame the libs
Well that’s what happens when you create a TV station to gaslight people 24/7 unimpeded for decades.
They don’t care if there’s gaps, those people just won’t get mail service. They’re only interested in extracting as much money as they can from the rotting husk of the US economy. They’ve just hollowed out so much of the middle class now that they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel and need to start squeezing the last dregs out of the barely profitable things like the USPS.
People have this idea that they will just up and dissolve or sell off USPS one day, that won’t happen. It will just slowly fall.
Private companies want access to mailboxes, that’s all this is about.
That simple thing will kill USPS, but they don’t care. It immediately kills the sanctity of mail, because now you don’t know if something was tampered with after it arrives in the box, before you get to check it.
So all congress has to do is allow mailbox access to private companies and refuse to issue any loans or funding and they will be crippled. Slowly having to sell off post office real estate and cutting staff, until the budget is balanced and mail services are abysmal.
Oh and as an added bonus, it will hamper USPS OIG ability to do any mail fraud type investigations. So that means you can bet there will be scams galore… Imagine if you get like 3 different bills from your power company, they all kind of look legit. You call the number and all 3 say you need to pay them.
No. Not only can it not fill the gap there isn’t an intent to.
It’s just, sell off a chunk of the government so someone can make money on a service.
Actually yes. They want to privatize it so that they can make money on it. Failure is the goal.
Actually yes. They want to privatize it so that they can
make money on itfurther exploit the working class. Failure is the goal.Although you’re right, I like to call out what it will do to everyone so it’s more explicit and will hopefully click in people’s minds.
The plan is to make it so ineffective it can justifiably be privatized entirely and their friends make millions by jacking up rates on a product that by design and necessity has no direct competitors.
It’s like having an enemy agent in the big chair leads to terrible decisions for basic needs…
No, they will just redirect to gas. They are buying something either way, the money has already been committed. Right now it’s 50/50 ev and gas plan, while slowing increasing the EV percentage as they roll out the chargers.
Now it sounds like they want to scrap it all, which is unfortunate considering chargers are in process of being built.
Don’t worry, Elon Musk has a much better idea for a postal vehicle. All he needs is 10 years and 1 trillion dollars and he’ll be ready with the prototype.
This is probably Trump’s way of telling Leon not to get out of line.
I’d love it if Trump fired Elon and Elon spent his billions fighting him.
I mean it’s possible.
Both Trump and Musk are the kind of rich assholes who are your “best friend” until they notice that a knife would fit very conveniently in your back. A pants shitting grifter and dot com bubble roulette winner, I can’t picture this odd couple having any love lost between them.
According to Epstein one of Trump’s favorite past-times was getting his best friends to sleep with prostitutes so he could tell their wives about it and get them to sleep with him in revenge.
But Christian and family values amirite?
And his dipshit USPS head is still there waiting for his time to shine.
Well if you watched the recent hearing the Republicans were reaming him out because he apparently hasn’t slashed expensives/services enough and it’s still in the red. So he might be getting replaced soon with someone worse.
Whatever oil wants, oil gets.
I remember reading Dante’s Inferno for the first time. I’m glad to be reminded of that.
I can’t say watching red wisconsin counties get fucked hard by Trump doing the thing everyone expected him to do isn’t satisfying
Reuters has previously reported that Trump is planning to kill a $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric vehicle purchases
Noooo! My friends just bought EVs and they’re gonna be so smug if I don’t get the credit!
I really don’t understand why money is so much more important to these people than not fucking over the environment.
But I guess you don’t get stinking rich by thinking about anything other than money. The concept of a wider world must really be foreign to these cunts.
Maybe a few more assassins are in order.
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I’m surprised he isn’t just cancelling the usps. Not sure I would miss the junk mail. And maybe it would force the garbage company to start sending bills and things over email. You know, like the notice that our pick up was moving. That would have been nice. Or actually… anthems reason for denial of a perscription that they rufused to give me electronically or tell me. Just have to wait for the mail.
