as well put a sign on his desk saying this guy has no idea what he s doing right now because he didn t and it couldn t have been more obvious . thousand yards. there was the giveaway. there were doughboy s in verdun who look less shell shocked and biden just did. but the question i mean, what was in the bill? let s see. you ll be happy to know that this bill , the inflation action act, includes three billion dollars for the u.s. postal service to buy new electric mail trucks. so why would your mailman need an electric mail truck? no one has ever explained that. but your mailman is getting in . china is getting even richer from the electric mail truck batteries, which makes. so there s that. then there s another three billion dollars allocated to block grants for something called enviromental justice that ll be overseen by the epa, which used to look after the environment. but now it s in the justice business. environmental justice gets
manufacturers to jack up the price of electric vehicles. we ve learned thatrr lesson from health care subsidies and subsidies for college tuition. there s also billions of dollars for the postal service to buy new mail trucks that don t pollute as much. and of course, there s one hundred billion dollars. the so-called renewable industry that includes manufacturers s of solar panels and wind turbines. so is that a good investment? let s see. right now, virtually every major renewable manufacturer is based in china trying to make that percent of c the world s solarhi panels and most of the world s windd turbines. so it s safe to say china understands renewables. but here s the revealing thing. china is not relying on those renewables for power generationo . take a look at this chart. c it shows annual carbon emissions from china, the u.s.k and europe going back to the 70s. notice t our emissions have been going down for years. china, by contrast, hasea been rising dramatically. that s s
does he have the stomach for that, he doesn t have help from congress as well. it was just announced today that the u.s. postal service, mike dejoy, the postmaster general from the trump holdover gave a little bit, and now 40% of the u.s. postal fleet will be electric. you know, joe biden can t get our mail trucks to stop idling, and new science is out there all the time that communities that have roundabouts instead of stoplights infant mortality actually goes down because people aren t sit lgting and idling, little improvements happen at every level, and once communities begin connecting those dpots. it would be amazing if he had a coalition of the green new deal. those were statements of values, which he s describing here, creating a new fair economy, an industrial revolution 2.0, where we build the oil industry in reverse, put the smokestacks back in the ground, and
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking an investigation into a U.S. Postal Service plan to replace its aging mail trucks with mostly gasoline-powered vehicles. The plan largely ignores White House calls to replenish the mail-service fleet with electric vehicles and has drawn sharp criticism from the Biden administration, Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists, who say it falls far short of President Joe Biden’s goals to address climate change. In a letter Monday, Democrats on the oversight panel asked the agency's inspector general to investigate whether the Postal Service complied with the National Environmental Policy Act and other laws when awarding a 10-year contract to Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Defense to supply up to 165,000 new mail trucks.