The magic school bus gets stranded on a country road
Zachary Faria
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The Democrats who control California may wish there were no downsides to the state’s forced transition to unreliable electric vehicles, but there are many.
One of those is the stranding of rural children, leaving them unable to go to school.
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It hasn’t happened yet, but it is on the horizon. California is forcing school buses, along with cars and semitrucks, to go fully electric by 2035. Rural school districts can apply for an extra 10 years to hold out until 2045, but even then, all projections show that electric bus technology is still so pathetic that it may not be able to handle longer rural routes by then.
Hybrid buses won’t be allowed under California’s law. Neither will propane-powered buses that generate 10 times lower emissions than the state’s standard. Only those bad, unreliable, fully electric buses such as those used by the Lassen Union High School District, which can only go 93 miles to a charge in the best weather conditions. One of Lassen’s closest opponents for sports is 119 miles away, on routes that don’t even have gas stations, let alone charging stations.
There is another brand of electric buses that can go 120 miles, meaning Lassen can play one opponent in every sport per year if it switches. That is, assuming the bus doesn’t catch on fire, as the Bishop Unified School District’s bus did.
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Then again, none of this matters to California Democrats. They don’t care about rural areas, after all, so who cares if rural children can’t get to school or take part in sports or clubs that require travel? Those students should leave Lassen and just move to unaffordable cities filled with homeless people and garbage. Your electric bus won’t run out of juice there, though it may get broken into a few times a week.
Otherwise, you will have to settle for being possibly stranded on long, winding roads with no cell service, probably in the snow. How else can we save the environment, if not forcing bad electric buses on people while China builds two new coal plants every week?