The postal agency's plan to replace its existing fleet with mostly gas-powered trucks has raised concerns among more than a dozen states and environmental groups.
The U.S. Postal Service's plan to add 40,000 gas-powered trucks that only get 8.6 miles per gallon has sparked a congressional inquiry, with House lawmakers questioning whether the agency"relied on flawed assumptions to justify the purchase of gas-powered trucks."that it wants the USPS to provide more information about the service's"Next Generation Delivery Vehicle" plan, which initially involves an order for 50,000 vehicles.
A delay"will also have environmental consequences as 30-year old environmentally and employee-unfriendly vehicles continue to travel through American neighborhoods, and our purchase of 10,019 electric vehicles is put on hold," a USPS spokeswoman said in an email to CBS MoneyWatch."The men and women of the U.S. Postal Service have waited long enough for safer, cleaner vehicles.
Critics say the USPS'"next generation" delivery truck , which gets less than 9 mpg, is a gas guzzler.Witnesses at an April hearing about the vehicle deal raised questions about whether the USPS"used flawed assumptions in its environmental and cost analyses to justify the purchase of gas-guzzling delivery trucks rather than electric vehicles," Maloney wrote in the May 12 letter.
Aside from the assumptions about gas prices that were off by $2 a gallon, Maloney cited the GAO's finding that the USPS"miscalculated maintenance costs for electric vehicles." She noted that others have said that the postal agency also relied on inaccurate information about the cost of EV chargers and the range of EVs.
The USPS said that the criticism of its environmental impact statement ignores the agency's"distinctive delivery profile, which requires our vehicles to travel short distances between hundreds of curbside boxes and to stop and start frequently throughout the day, which is a vastly different delivery profile than that of our competitors."Thanks for reading CBS NEWS.
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