It’s spending up to $11.3 billion on new trucks.
“The Postal Service’s proposal as currently crafted represents a crucial lost opportunity to more rapidly reduce the carbon footprint of one of the largest government fleets in the world,” wrote the EPA’s associate administrator for policy, Vicki Arroyo. Theto purchase the new vehicles from Wisconsin-based defense contractor Oshkosh with both gasoline and electric drivetrains. The deal could see it spending up to $11.3 billion on new trucks over the next decade.
When asked why more of the fleet wasn’t electric, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy previously said that the agency couldn’t afford it. The USPS is currently $206.4 billion in debt, according to theWaPo The EPA has criticized the USPS for several assumptions it made when making its decision about the new fleet, saying it “presents biased cost and emission estimates.” In particular the analysis appears to underestimate how the country’s nascent charging infrastructure may improve in the future, overestimates the emissions from plug-in vehicles, and assumes that gasoline and battery prices will remain at the same levels for decades.
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