In one of his first actions in January, President Biden announced an ambitious plan that he said would create jobs and reduce the federal government’s greenhouse gas emissions.
“The federal government also owns an enormous fleet of vehicles,” he said Jan. 25, “which we’re going to replace with clean, electric vehicles made right here in America by American workers, creating millions of jobs — a million autoworker jobs in clean energy — and vehicles that are net-zero emissions.”
But the agency that makes up the largest chunk of the federal government’s vehicle fleet, the U.S. Postal Service, says it can’t yet afford to fully make that switch — even as it takes steps to upgrade some of its delivery trucks.
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