Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children
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Nearly $1B in federal funding will help decarbonize transportation and clean up some of the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution

Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution.::Nearly $1B in federal funding will help decarbonize transportation and clean up some of the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      Did you know that regular buses also come in electrical variants?

      Even more shockingly: So do trams and metros.

      • set_secret@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        obviously electric buses would be the solution which is shockingly the point of the argument. How dense are you?

        • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Less dense than thinking that public transport can’t use electric vehicles, claiming that public transport wouldn’t fix diesel issues.

            • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
              11·
              10 months ago

              You:

              Why not just make normal public transit? Like school busses aren’t a thing here so I took the regular bus to school like everyone else, it’s a lot more versatile too since people can take it to more places.

              that doesn’t fix the toxic diesel pollution does it?

              OP there wanted to know why school buses instead of ordinary public transport buses, separate from any diesel vs. electric issue.

              You then went ahead and said “nuh-uh if we don’t have dedicated school buses we can’t fix diesel fumes”.

              That’s why you got downvoted, that’s why my snarky retort got upvoted. You may not have meant it like that but that’s how what you wrote reads to other people.

              • set_secret@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                10 months ago

                I never suggested we don’t or do have dedicated school buses. My point is crystal clear: all diesel buses, school or otherwise, are toxic to humans. School buses are a bigger problem, directly exposing kids to these harmful particulates. It’s astonishing how my simple point about electrifying public transport and or school buses, which I’ve repeated ad nauseam, gets twisted. People’s preconceived notions or maybe their reading comprehension problems are skewing the real issue here. It’s not rocket science, yet here we are, going in circles.

    • FluffyPotato@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      10 months ago

      Neither do school busses since only kids take those. If like most people took the bus instead of drove that would help immensely even if it was the most polluting bus ever.

      • set_secret@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        um wtf? We all wearing gas masks or something? You realise diesel fumes are toxic to people right? Kids catching buses spewing toxic gas is not a good situation. I think you’re focusing on the climate changing issue of pollution and not the pressing issue, which is the toxic fumes that come from diesel buses.

        • FluffyPotato@lemm.eeEnglish
          12·
          10 months ago

          What kind of weird busses do you have in the states? Most busses (And a large amount of cars) here run on diesel and have no such issue.