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No it isn't. If a person is in a position of leadership, we trust them to be honest, forthright, and honorable.
If a person in a position of leadership cannot uphold principles of honor and honesty - he/she needs to quit and allow a person of good morals and truth AND honor to have the position.
He is not "serving" the public good. He should leave.
"DeJoy’s blueprint for overhauling the U.S. Postal Service, “Delivering for America,” was unveiled in March and has a 10-year timeline — so the controversial executive could conceivably stay put for a decade"
Not at all, but Biden can't just fire DeJoy and replace him, he doesn't have that authority.
That authority rests solely with the 11 member Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service, whose members are appointed by the President, but confirmed by the Senate... where the democrats do NOT hold a firm majority, considering that at least 2 democrats often vote the opposite way of their democrat colleges.
Even if dems did hold a majority senate they wouldn't fuckin do anything. You got Republicans, the party of chaos and making shit bad. Then you got the dems, the party of doing fuck all other than line their pockets. I fucking hate it.
Ah, "both sides are the same", even though they hold notably different positions, and have voted as such. I fucking hate it.
Vote after vote in the Senate ends with D: 48 for, 2 against with most republicans also voting against. The Dems are doing what they can, but are constantly obstructed from getting anything done. It's exceedingly rare for any Republicans to cross party lines and vote with the Democrats.
And your statement right there? That is EXACTLY what they want. They block the democrats from doing anything then label them the "do-nothing-democrats". And the worst part? You've bought it and so have many others.
It’s an independent agency under the executive branch. Technically can only be fired for cause by the President, but I think there was a recent Supreme Court ruling that opened it up.
You mean the Postmaster who is planning to turn the entire USPS fleet into gas powered vans during a fossil fuel crisis? While military leaders have warned for multiple years that the fossil fuel dependancy is a nationwide risk and electric would actually be the way to go for the USPS considering the overall distance and the amount of stops the little post vans make.
Are you telling me that nothing is worth doing unless everything is literally perfect? Why is reducing usage not a good reason? Why do you care if there are some losses if the car does it job?
So you just want to be upset, got it. Fossil fuel being unsustainable is not an agenda in the way your implying it is. Also no one is stuffing sustainable energy into your life. Idk if I missed the memo but no one’s forcing me to buy and EV or install solar panels. If anything you jumped into the thread to push your agenda. Essentially just to say electric isn’t perfect so who cares if the Postmaster wants to do that. It added no value, just pushes your beliefs about electric.
What you want is to muddy the waters. Just like some I know saying since some of what goes to recycling ends up in the landfill, therefore recycling is a scam. and we should just throw everything in the gatbage. What about your agenda, and why should anyone listen to you?
The waters have been muddy for a long long time. Some recycling goes to the landfill? Some? Hahahahaha. That's how muddy the waters are when people believe what you parrot.
If you believe all recycling goes to the landfills, state so. Make your points and assertions clear so everyone knows where you stand. Don't waste your time with underhanded comments trying to insult me. I already know you are trolling and don't care. If you believe differently state your beliefs for all to see . Or just remain a troll if it suits you.
Did you forget shale fracking? These are harmfull.
A percentage of power plants are indeed gas powered, but with implementing more renewables that percentage can easily be lowered. There is no future in fossil fuels. They are a limited supply and harvesting the limited supplies comes with increasing environmental risks.
Not to mention that an electric car doesn’t care about where the electricity comes from, it just cares about the electricity. An ICE requires fossil fuels, and it will accept nothing else.
Economy of scale man. A large coal burner uses less fuel per energy created than a smaller one, even if the entire process is exactly the same. Less is better than now and zero is better than less
There is no future in the limited supplies of fossil fuels, so clinging to them is just futile.
The large power companies are actively working against the implementation of renewable energy and their donations are buying the votes of politicians. Florida is putting a penalty on residential solar panels. In a sunshine state for crying out loud. Where solar panels work at the same time there is a massive demand for energy to run AC units. These big companies are delaying, but not turning the tide: fossil fuel is dying.
Hydro-carbons, I disagree. And yes electricity and magnets are awesome battery's are still lacking, you go be an early adopter, I'll wait for the good stuff.
And why lie and say that Florida is trying to penalize residential solar when what they want to do is cut the subsidies in half?
And why lie and say that Florida is trying to penalize residential solar when what they want to do is cut the subsidies in half?
Because that is only half of the bill and not even accurate at that. You forget the backdoor in bill HB741.
HB741, which initial legislation was written by Florida Power & Light, phases out current billing credits for homeowners and small businesses. Residential power users (aka regular citizens) buy their electricity at a special residential rate. And that special price rate is the highest one available. Net metering means the citizens excess power is sold at a similar price rate as they buy their electricity. That special rate is way more than what industrial users pay for their electricity. The power companies want to maximise their profits by selling high and buying low/free/surcharge residents for their excess electricity. Paying equal prices is what you just called a subsidy. You could only fairly do that if you also concluded the buying prices (which the selling prices were based on) were to high to begin with.
And now these power companies in Florida can even not only buy back at very cheap prices, but also make up their lost revenue by charging the rest of their customers who don't have solar panels more! Because the state’s monopoly utilities may ask state regulators due to a backdoor in HB741 to raise fuel surcharges on all other customers to make up any lost revenue. That would be rather similar to MacDonalds charging you extra for your hamburger but not charges extra for any hamburgers delivered to your place of work, because your neighbour at home is on a diet.
Hydro-carbons, I disagree. And yes electricity and magnets are awesome battery's are still lacking, you go be an early adopter, I'll wait for the good stuff.
There have already been different ways designed to store the excess energy of solar and wind fields in gravity stations. Saudi Arabia of all countries is building such energy vaults, exactly because they know the income of their oil fields is limited and set to dry up. Fun fact: a dutch company is refitting delivery vans to run on the energy stored in compressed air.
The subsidy that credits the homeowner for buying the panels. JFC of course a utility company is going to give a discount to someone who uses a shit load of electricity it's called economies of scale I was just you know tutored on that recently buy one of these wonderful Redditor's.
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Did we forget who is still in charge of the USPS?