The decision by the USPS board of governors to order gasoline-powered vehicles is wrong-headed and dangerous.
The decision to order tens of thousands of gasoline-powered vehicles for the USPS is wrong on so many levels.There’s a hullabaloo brewing in America about the decision by the USPS to order up a fleet of next generation delivery vehicles. A good part of the debate is focused on how Oshkosh Defense, the contractor selected by the USPS board of governors to manufacture the new vehicles, is running away from its union contracts in Wisconsin to a state that is a bastion of non-union animus.
Today, the Postal Service spends about $115 million dollars a year on gasoline. Think that’s a lot of money? It’s chicken feed compared to the more thanit spends to keep its 30-year-old fleet of vehicles running. Between lower fuel costs and lower maintenance cost, electric trucks would pay for themselves in about 5 years.
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