A recent study in PNAS found that replacing old diesel school buses with electric buses in the U.S. significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions, mortality, and childhood asthma cases. The health and climate benefits outweigh the higher initial costs of electric buses.
Thirdly we create 20 million new jobs as we transform our energy system and improve our infrastructure and those are going to be good paying union jobs, and those folks are going to be paying taxes, fourthly for a variety of reasons, we ve got to cut military spending. fifthly we do away with trump s huge tax breaks for the rich and sixth we have a progressive tax system which demands large corporations and the rich start paying their fair share of the taxes. at first i thought this was implausible, but the plan when you re talking about replacing every diesel school bus in america, which is what the plan calls for, that s a lot of jobs. what is your to me there s a mismatch between the promises and the reality that makes these things hard, right? there are coal workers right now out of work in wyoming. there are coal workers who are stationed in harlan county, kentucky not getting their pensions not letting that coal move because they ve been screwed time and time again. what do y
To be paying taxes, fourthly for a variety of reasons, we ve got to cut military spending. fifthly we do away with trump s huge tax breaks for the rich and sixth we have a progressive tax system which demands large corporations and the rich start paying their fair share of the taxes. at first i thought this was implausible, but the plan when you re talking about replacing every diesel school bus in america, which is what the plan calls for, that s a lot of jobs. what is your to me there s a mismatch between the promises and the reality that makes these things hard, right? there are coal workers right now out of work in wyoming. there are coal workers who are stationed in harlan county, kentucky not getting their pensions not letting that coal move because they ve been screwed time and time again. what do you say to them when they say why should i believe that the promise you re making can be a reality? well, one of the things that we do, and we put many, many tens of billions of