Posted on | August 25, 2025 | No Comments
“Fossil fuels — BAD! Green energy — GOOD!” This is the sum total of left-wing ideas on the subject, no matter how much “science” they claim to justify their prejudice, and no facts will persuade them:
School districts throughout the United States are ditching electric school buses, manufactured by a Canadian company that has fallen into bankruptcy, for diesel school buses, citing the difficulty in getting electric buses repaired.
The return to diesel school buses comes as Quebec-based Lion Electric, which the Biden administration awarded $159 million “to manufacture 435 school buses between 2022 and 2024,” has fallen into bankruptcy, according to the Washington Free Beacon. As a result, the company has “warned school districts that its dire financial straits prevent it from servicing” the electric school buses.
Several superintendents explained to the outlet that while they would try to keep the “electric fleet” of school buses operating “for as long as possible,” they would eventually have to “return to diesel” due to diesel school buses being more affordable.
“We are going to keep our electric fleet on the roads for as long as possible,” Mike Leskowich, who serves as the superintendent of the Homer Community School District in Michigan, told the outlet. Leskowich’s school district “received $2.8 million in federal funding to procure seven Lion buses in 2022.”
“Eventually, however, we will return to diesel, as the cost of the vehicle is far less than electric,” Leskowich added. . . .
The Washington Free Beacon reported earlier this year that Lion, then nearing bankruptcy, had yet to deliver $95 million worth of the electric buses it pledged to produce as part of the Biden administration’s $5 billion Clean School Bus program. Since then, Lion was sold for just $6 million during bankruptcy proceedings after being valued at $4.7 billion as recently as June 2021. The company also permanently shuttered multiple manufacturing plants, fired the majority of its employees, and told consumers that it could no longer honor warranties and purchase orders in the United States.
Travis Fisher, who works as the director of energy and environmental policy studies at the Cato Institute, explained to the outlet that this was “yet another example that perhaps there will be large bumps in the road” in switching to electric vehicles (EVs).
Repair costs aren’t something that “green energy” enthusiasts are capable of calculating, just like they never ponder whether the process of manufacturing wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, etc., produces carbon emissions and other pollution in such quantities as to completely offset the alleged “planet-saving” benefits. Such basic issues — the whole cost/benefit aspect of their carbon-free pipe dreams — don’t make any impression on them, the same way it’s useless to try explaining to a Scientologist that L. Ron Hubbard was a mediocre science-fiction writer who cooked up a scam to defraud his dimwit followers.
The alleged “climate crisis” is a hoax, and even if it weren’t, the measures proposed by the “green energy” cultists — e.g., government-subsidized electric school buses — would do nothing to solve the problem. Meanwhile, here’s some simple arithmetic: Divide $159 million by 435 and you discover that the Biden administration spent $365,517.24 per electric bus. You can buy a Ferrari with 819 horsepower for less.
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