“To me, the bus is bad,” says 10-year-old Michael, who lives with his grandfather, a retired combat medic. “What would happen if every single bus ran on electricity? It would power out. Our national grid is already stretching out so much now that we have phones. I know too much for my age.”
His grandfather never turns off Newsmax/OANN, guaranteed. Poor kid.
The kid thinks phones are stressing the power grid?
He definitely doesn't "know too much for [his] age." That's about what I expect from a ten year old.
Phones are such a minor blip when it comes to power it isn't funny.
It's a little funny.
I ~~know~~ have been too ~~much~~ brainwashed for my age.
“I have a lot of conservative friends,” the owner of my hotel tells me. “Not like, MAGA, but they just want the country to function properly.” That does not include an urgent switch to electric, which she suggested is part of a broader push from environmentalists to make kids think the "world is ending in 10 years."
"The first one we got was a no-brainer," says Superintendent Daniel Pacos. "But when we got $7.9 million in grant money to get 20 more, that’s when the concerns started coming out. People wanted to give the money back, like they heard other districts were doing, for political reasons."
I’m so tired of these people.
she suggested is part of a broader push from environmentalists to make kids think the "world is ending in 10 years."
Is she by any chance a frog? I heard they don't notice when they're slowly boiling to death.
Electric school buses require a fraction of the maintenance costs of traditional diesel buses. Forget extra funding... That fact alone makes them worth it for every school district.
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