By: Diane Benjamin
We know Connect Transit bought electric buses from Proterra – they PAID for them: https://blnnews.com/2023/08/25/did-connect-transit-throw-away-9-million/
Those buses were paid for in 2022 and 2023.
Maybe staff didn’t have time in the last 2 years to update the website, but under Connect Transit Fleet no electric buses are listed: https://connect-transit.com/about/our-fleet
There are 39 diesel buses and 18 gas and propane Mobility buses, not a single electric bus!
Asheville NC bought 5 electric buses in 2018. 3 of the 5 are inoperable: https://wlos.com/news/alexa/5-million-loss-for-asheville-as-flawed-electric-buses-sit-idle-interim-transportation-director-jessica-morriss-maintenance-director-john-mcdaniel-proterra
Anyone surprised they are Proterra busses – the now bankrupt company?
Maintenance expenses are eating Asheville.
No one should be surprised Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm held Proterra stock until 2021. She sold it for a $1.6 million profit. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/jennifer-granholm-proterra-holdings-491007
I can’t imagine why the Feds would hand out grants for Proterra electric buses while the energy secretary was a stockholder. 😏
These people are as filthy as the day is long. No shame. No conscience. No morals. Purely selfish.
It would be interesting to know the total investment profit democrat and republican politicians have made as democrats have forced provably unworkable green on America’s industries.
Shhh! They’re hunting personal profit, while taxpayers are paying for their personal agendas to pay off big.
In what kind of world does it make sense to allow government employees that influence public policy to purchase stocks from companies that operate in the public realm? Insider trading is against the law. Politicians are the ultimate insiders.
It’s how the entire “environmental” pyramid is designed. Create a fake narrative, get quoted in a paper. Find science to publish it, get government to fund it, taxpayers to finance its mission to fix it.
Then create businesses dependent on government to make products that will fix “global warming/change”, invest private personal funds/capital in those businesses, due to knowledge of government policies, investments, agendas. Become wealthy off of citizens tax dollars after government subsidies dry up and business goes bankrupt further enriching all parties, except the taxpayers, who pays out 110% in bankruptcy court to investors that wrote contracts with the government guaranteeing their investments but not the public funding.
Democrats invest tax dollars in their own interests only when the profit is made in 3-6 months with a >40% profit. Just ask anyone that’s dealt with public/private partnerships or in State farm, ADM, or other Corp business ventures.
They use family or trusts.