Congresswoman Debbie Lesko
@RepDLesko

Democrats allocated over $2.5 billion to replace the USPS delivery fleet with electric vehicles. China produces nearly half of the world’s electric vehicles. The Chinese economy will be boosted at the expense of American taxpayers!

1 And people who live in the north of the country, where winters can get really nasty, will have "reduced service" on days the trucks can't function. As if the USPS weren't in enough trouble.

2 That is a typical liberal response to such a problem; reduce service and raise costs when you are having trouble meeting your responsibilities.

They NEVER think of actually becoming competitive.

3 I assume, Dana, that you’re referring to the fact that when batteries get cold they deliver less of their stored energy. When they get VERY cold they perform as if they were dead.

When my ship was north of the Arctic Circle we had to chop ice off the superstructure a couple times. We took lanterns topside for the purpose, and the light rapidly became dimmer, dimmer, and went out. Man, we thought, those batteries died fast. We took then below, where they warmed up and the light came back on.

Winter deliveries in Minnesota and North Dakota will be very dicey indeed.

4 Yes, that's part of it, Bill, but the other part is it just takes more power to push a vehicle through snowy roads, so that would deplete the battery's charge even quicker.

Here in Minnesota. where a lot of this "green energy" crap is being swallowed, the City of Duluth -- about two hours north of the Twin Cities and famous for its winters -- tried a fleet of electric commuter buses a couple years or so ago. They failed spectacularly, and partly because they didn't have the "oomph" to push the bus up a snowy hill. (Duluth is (in)famous for its hills, in addition to the weather.)

Duluth is where, when the groundhog sees his shadow on Groundhog Day, predicting six more weeks of winter, they say "Oh, Goodie; only six more weeks."

5 Yeah Bill; batteries lose their charge quickly in the cold.

I have to thaw out my battery-operated lights at the Ozark Hilton before they work in winter.

6 Dana My wife used to work at Home Savings of America and her co-workers were, uh, pretty dim.

They once had a huge argument about whether it was a groundhog or a ground squirrel. One woman argued it was a groundsquirrel and if it saw it's shadow there would be six more MONTHS of winter!

She was openly defiant and absolutely convinces she was right. (Is it any wonder America is in such trouble?)

I had somehow gained a reputation as some sort of guru, an old man on the mountaintop. They kept telling Cathy "call your husband". She did and my wise pronouncement ended the fight.

(They thought I was wise because I bought a mix of cheap candies to give out one halloween that turned out to be "ghetto mix". Cathy brought the leftovers in  and they loved me thereafter because I had "soul".)

So I imagine the groundhog seeing his shadow must be a desperate thing for you Minnesotans; it means winter will last until the end of August...