With all the talk about the sheer, monumental waste in our government, all sorts of stories of massive waste is coming to light, including this one about our tax dollars wasted on an electric bus company in Canada.
That’s right, we are throwing almost $200 million on a useless Canadian electric vehicle maker.
First of all, our tax dollars should not be going to any company unless we are buying a product. We should not be giving our tax dollars to a company to help it grow, operate, or develop.
But, on with the waste…
Jonathan Turley has revealed that Joe Biden threw $160 million federal dollars at Lion Electric, an EV bus company out of Canada.
The Canadian electric bus company Lion Electric is such an example. Figures like Vice President Kamala Harris did repeated photo ops with electric buses as a defining issue. However, the company struggled from the start and the Biden Administration failed to take the most basic steps to protect taxpayer money. Rather than break up payments in segments based on actual production, Biden officials just sent the $160 million to the company.
The company is now shutting down without supplying $95 million in bus orders. The money is gone. Poof! and the company could vanish with the “Lion’s share” of U.S. public funds.
At the same time, the Administration pushed local and state governments to buy electric vehicles. Many blue cities went all-in but then had to spend more money to deal with the failures. Cities like Asheville, North Carolina, spent millions to buy more expensive electric buses only to find that they had to be recharged every 70 miles. Three out of five buses quickly broke down and could not be repaired because the company, Proterra, also filed for bankruptcy.
There are so many examples of this that it simply rattles the mind.
Let’s hope Trump, Musk, and DOGE can stop this.
Then there’s this…
A school district in Democrat Maine got new EV busses through The EPA’s ‘Clean school bus program’
Winter came and the busses shut down during a run, they were unable to be driven back to the school and abandoned on the side of the road
“They sent the buses back to the… pic.twitter.com/IIiXWHU7Qc
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