Now Is the Time to Electrify the US Postal Service Fleet
Forget Amazon delivery, it could be the humble, dependable US Postal Service that ushers us all into the electric future. Along with 200 billion pieces of mail a year, electric postal service trucks could also deliver clean air benefits to every neighborhood—that is, if the Biden administration takes charge.
So what would it take to make that happen? This should be a no-brainer for the federal government, and an easy win to protect our lungs and the climate. Last year, President Biden even issued anto acquire only zero-emission federal vehicles in the coming decades. But in that same month, the postal service issued its final environmental analysis for a plan to purchase up to 165,000 vehicles with 90% of them being fossil fuel burning vehicles.
It would be absurd and funny, if it weren't such a tragic missed opportunity for the country. If the federal government decided to shift its fleet to electric delivery, it would be one of the largest electric vehicle contracts in the world. It could generate enough manufacturing jobs to put a state like Wisconsin on the map for electric vehicle production, given the size of this contract.
Mail trucks make up over 30% of the federal government's vehicles, so an electrified fleet would save neighborhoods in this country from a staggering amount of air and climate pollution. We'd be opting out of burning 135 million gallons of fuel every year, which we're otherwise locked into under Postmaster General DeJoy's plans. Electrifying the USPS would save us from burning a jaw-dropping 2 billion to 4 billion gallons of fuel over 20 years.
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