Love how this country's strategy to "reduce" emissions is to just make more stuff instead of make do with what already exists. They could at least do electric conversions on buses instead of just trashing them all, but then that wouldn't be a government handout to vehicle manufacturers that make these buses.
Not to mention, all of this "we're making everything electric!" thing is meaningless if most of the US is still burning fossil fuels to produce the electricity. But that doesn't matter for stuff like this since it's all just part of this aggressive green-washing campaign every US corporation and the US government are now doing.
They could at least do electric conversions on buses instead of just trashing them all, but then that wouldn’t be a government handout to vehicle manufacturers that make these buses.
There's a huge business in shipping used vehicles south of the border. They'll get reused. Just not in the states.
I mean this is kind of a lie - the program allows school districts to buy cheaper natural gas and propane-powered buses as well, I found a reply that details that a bit more:
https://nitter.net/subu_caps/status/1527844212133093376#m
They could also build denser housing around schools and make them neighborhood centers
