Illinois Lawmakers Thumb Noses at Constitution to Impose New Taxes – Wirepoints
June 9, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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good luck with your ****** bullshit, fools
I wonder if their charging stations have a diesel generator as a back-up if the power goes out…? ? ?
The Tribune demonstrates their undying loyalty to the Happy Warrior with another ridiculous article. They should be forced to take one of their beloved electric buses to work.
The supporters say that the busses cut the diesel exhaust that leads to assorted deadly ailments to the children and the communities. Interesting that things like that aren’t mentioned regarding all the assorted empty busses that criss-cross the State thanks to the assorted tax and spend transit districts these days. So, thanks to this article’s enlightenment, if you have a respiratory ailment perhaps the blame lies on an Illinois transit district for exacerbating or causing it.
For electric buses, the failure rate is about 20 percent, meaning 20 of 100 e-buses are down on any given day, due to problems with the buses or with their charging devices. https://www.govtech.com/education/k-12/breakdowns-recalls-fuel-skepticism-of-electric-school-buses
What an utterly pathetic article, entirely ignoring the long list of severe problems widely reported around the nation with electric buses.
Mark, don’t forget the utter stupidity of the feds subsidizing this and the real costs without subsidies. A diesel school bus costs about $150K and the cost of an electric bus per the article is $375K. The payback period, based on the $225K differential in cost and the very high end of the superintendent’s estimated savings on fuel and maintenance at $9K a year per bus. The payback period is 25 years and this does not include the cost of the chargers and other upgraded infrastructure. The average life of an electric bus on the high end is 15 years.… Read more »
Totally agree. This is a fiasco I’ve written about before. https://wirepoints.org/government-splurging-on-electric-school-buses-even-as-reports-of-their-problems-soar-wirepoints/
Mark-Also don’t forget about when they catch fire.
https://www.visiontimes.com/2022/07/27/connecticut-electric-bus-fire-fleet-replaced-diesel.html
What else would one expect from the democrat lap dogs at the Tribune.