buses, breaking down more often. the middle of winter, electric anything has real challenges, recharging and staying out on the road and getting any efficiencies. instead of providing schools the flexibility to invest in what they need, we re forcing them to buy school buses that are breaking down and having real maintenance problems and five times more expensive than traditional school buses that are proven. i think it s a disaster waiting to happen. governor whitmire, the michigan governor, introduced her budget to put another $150 million on top of the billions the biden administration is spending on school buses. two weeks ago, the michigan senate, the republicans offered an amendment to say instead of spending $75 million on these electric school buses, that we should go ahead and use that money for scholarships for reading and learning loss. i think it s a travesty that every democrat voted against it.
asked by the republican republican-controlled transportation committee to determine if it is the weather or self-caused by the airlines and it is the airlines. the numbers computed the percentages of flights cancelled with staff problems, maintenance problems. hawaii air, aliegient, not the weather. at the bottom of the list, america, united and delta, fewest flights cancelled from maintenance and the rest. 2021 numbers, though cancellation continued into 2022. the debacle over christmas, 16,000 flights cancelled. and this is something that occurred coming out of the
report finds the airlines themselves are to plame for the majority of post-pandemic surge in flight cancellations. jeff flock is at philly international airport. jeff, you spend a lot of time in airports. what is the reaction there? sadly, fortunately i m not going anywhere, i like it when that happens. we talked to some folks about that thing, the reaction is summed up in the words of no duh, but yeah, here what happened, the house transportation committee said let s get to the bottom of this. asked the general accounting office to check out cancellations. are they the weather like the airlines often say or something else, like maintenance problems, or staffing problems. the answer is in, and yeah, it s the airlines fault. take a look at the numbers, sandra. this is the people that did worse were the budget carriers like spirit, jetblue, frontier,
capabilities. that s not ideal, but when you re looking for these types of enablers and you ve got nations that are willing to step up and say i ll provide you x, i ll provide you y. understand you have a whole bunch of maintenance problems and in many cases with tanks and bradleys, you end up with they re fuel haulers. can you maintain them? are you going to have these pieces of capability, this great kit end up at the end of a particular operation where they can t maneuver anymore because they re running out of fuel? these are considerations that the ukrainians are aware of. i m not trying to be a debby downer. what i m saying is these are the things that are on the board that will be addressed and are being addressed right now. thattest what warfare is all about now. people talk about tacticians, warfare. this is all about logistics in order to support this type of operation. what we continue to hear from the ukrainians is thank you for all of this but we still need more in orde
bring trump back in, which is as some suspected, this is the classic october surprise, but the prices should come down in gas, but the refineries are the strangle hold here. if you take a look at the last year, we have a 360% jump in refinery profits, unjustified. even the rest of the oil industry is not even up by a third, so there s something suspicious there. and they say, well, we ve had shut downs. you look at the shut downs, it s 100% mismanagement, maintenance problems, nothing to do with the trump or biden administration policies. there s something weird going on with the middle man in the refineries that hasn t been discussed. steve, you have listened to the case. you have read the article. what do you make of it? i think the professor makes some very good points. i think the substance of what s happened with u.s. energy policy during this crisis has actually been fine from the standpoint of trying to keep prices as low as possible for consumers whether it s releasing oil,