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"Postal Service Stirs Ire by Buying Gasoline Trucks and a Few EVs" [1]

"The U.S. Postal Service currently plans for only 10% of its new truck fleet to be electric, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Wednesday, angering environmentalists who say the move flies in the face of a White House executive order to electrify the government’s vehicles.

DeJoy’s revelation in a hearing before a House panel comes the day after the Postal Service announced that Wisconsin-based maker of military trucks, Oshkosh Corp., had won a long-delayed $6 billion contract to replace the service’s fleet of gas-guzzling postal trucks."

Ari Natter and Todd Shields report for Bloomberg News February 24, 2021. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"Losing Bid for Postal Contract Proves Costly for Electric-Vehicle Maker" (New York Times) [3]

Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Government [6]
Transportation [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Public [9]
Source: Bloomberg [2], 02/25/2021
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/postal-service-stirs-ire-buying-gasoline-trucks-and-few-evs [2] https://bnanews.bna.com/environment-and-energy/post-office-purchase-of-gasoline-truck-seems-to-defy-biden-order [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/business/workhorse-stock-price-postal-contract.html [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government [7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/transportation [8] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [9] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81