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Lion Electric brings the prospect of 1,400 jobs and the first new vehicle assembly plant to metropolitan Chicago since 1965. It offers hope that Illinois can put people to work attacking its most significant source of greenhouse gas pollution: tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Electricity is not an energy source, its a convenient energy transfer medium. When the schools learn that charging a fleet of 50 busses will require the kilowatts of a town to do, they’ll go buy some diesels. When they approach their town for the needed electrical upgrades they will be laughed out. EV’s are not economically viable/sustainable without subsidies, EV’s are not “electric” if the power comes from coal, gas, nuclear, hydro, etc. Biggest scam of them all.
Tribune Publishes Pro-Pritzker Puff Piece, Fawning Over State Subsidies For Electric Buses
Once the Unions get hold of this the company will fail.
Instead of ignoring hydrogen powered vehicle technology, we should be promoting the heck out of it. If Hydrogen had one quarter the lefty support that EVs do we wouldbe way further along for clean energy transportation.
The wheels on the taxpayers go round, round, round………
It will be a bust, just like everything Illinois touches. They will regret coming to anywhere in Illinois as thousands of others have in the past.
Electrical energy use is still in the experimental stage. Energy production seeks efficiency. Sails replaced oars, steam replaced sails and petroleum replaced steam. Rails replaced canals with their barges pulled by mules and trucks and cars got people and goods even closer to their end destinations. All of these electrical vehicles are currently powered by coal and wind, they will only be more efficient than petroleum when we fully implement that old trouble maker nuclear power.
It’s the idiotic flavour of the day. The powers that be intent on looking busy and productive will embrace any idiots cause to look busy. Even somebody missing half their skull knows it’s not viable. Electric buses, Rivian Solyndra”…….All Bullshit, All day.
These stupid electric industrial vehicles have no range. You get 100 miles with a trailer on a good day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4aInf-4BuE