While President Biden signed a landmark Post Office reform bill into law last week — finally putting the Postal Service on solid footing again — Trump’s handpicked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was still at work trying to sabotage and undermine the USPS with his backward and destructive policies.
As the Post Office negotiates a contract to purchase a fleet of 160,000 new mail trucks, DeJoy is pushing for a 90% gasoline-powered fleet. Talk about behind the times.
You read that right. DeJoy wants to pay over $11 billion in taxpayer dollars for a fleet that doesn’t even get 9 miles per gallon — which would pump 20 million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. That’s the equivalent of adding 4.3 million passenger cars to America’s roads.
He won’t even consider the more cost-effective, sustainable alternative of an all-electric fleet. What else would you expect from a Trump loyalist?
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I don’t need to tell you what a disaster it would be to lock in this contract. Why on earth would we willingly pump more toxic pollutants into the atmosphere knowing there are better alternatives?
Last week’s report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows just how dire things are, and how little time we have left to act to stave off the worst effects of the climate crisis.
You have to be deep in fossil fuel lobbyists’ pockets or deep in denial to think a new gas-powered fleet is a good idea in 2022.
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The American people did not elect President Biden and Democratic majorities in Congress for one Trump crony at the head of the USPS to continue with this destructive policy. Thanks for adding your name — we can’t let DeJoy get away with this.
— Adam
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