I realize this is going to be difficult for you all to believe, but it seems as if many true believers in school systems across America have been bamboozled by looking at life through green-tinted glasses provided to them by the Climate Cult.
The odious, baby-puke green hue seen through these lenses comes not only from the dewy promises of Earth’s renewal through renewables and those technologies tied to the promised natural energy sources. Remember the government green that came with it – the grants, the bribes, the subsidies, the promises of eternal fulfillment and support for plunging, in most cases, one’s already financially strapped school system and underserved students into the morass of such 22nd-century whiz mobiles as ‘the electric bus.’
They’re saving the planet one bankrupt school district at a time. pic.twitter.com/WdHLnUvjBe
— Politickle (@PolitickleNews) August 14, 2025
Sure, there’s an awkward break-in period with any new technology, and being first normally has risks associated with being bold, but the Biden administration promised to take all their cares away.
They were going to pay for most, if not all, of these wunder wagons, so no worries if there were a few close calls, from nearly barbequed Canadian elementary schoolers, no heat on buses for Maine students in the winter, to an entire brand-new, five-vehicle fleet of never-used electric buses a school system hadn’t even put in service yet.
New super-expensive electric buses catch on fire… in the garage.
Who could have possibly predicted this?
2-hour school delay issued following bus garage fire in Wilbraham https://t.co/iAt9d8EhnC
— Howie Carr (@HowieCarrShow) January 21, 2025
All that in only one post.
Growing pains.
In that post, the spectacular school bus fire in Huntsville, Ontario, was part of the concerns that led the government of Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) to cancel its contract with electric bus manufacturer Lion Electric this past January.
It’s almost as if someone up there was paying attention to world events, because even the school system’s mechanics had questions about the troubled EV company’s track record.
The P.E.I. government has halted plans to purchase more electric school buses due to the financial uncertainty surrounding Lion Electric, the company that manufactures most of the vehicles for the province.
The Quebec-based manufacturer entered creditor protection last month after struggling to repay debts.
…”We’ll get back to a normal procurement and, you know, down that pathway to net zero by 2040 when we’ve got more confidence in those buses,” Lantz told CBC News.
Mind you, the province already had serious sunk costs in the transition and was unwilling to bet the farm on company assurances.
…P.E.I. began transitioning its school bus fleet to electric vehicles in 2021, starting with 12 buses. The fleet has since grown to about 100 electric buses, part of a $40-million shared initiative between the provincial and federal governments.
…”We have recently purchased a small number of diesel buses,” Lantz said. “We’ve got to operate a school transportation system.“
…Robert Geiss, president of CUPE Local 1145, which represents more than 300 school bus drivers in P.E.I., said he’s also heard about Lion Electric’s assurances.
“There’s talk of Lion being bought out by other bus companies. If that happens, we’ve been told that they’ll honour any of the warranties, so that won’t affect us too much,” Geiss said.
That ‘if’ was doing a lot of heavy lifting in light of what was happening at the Lion plant.
…However, Geiss said he’s concerned whether the company has enough mechanics to service the buses.
Lion recently announced temporary layoffs for 150 workers across Canada and the United States as part of its creditor protection process. This follows four waves of layoffs earlier in 2024.
None of this seemed to bother the cash-happy climate cultists in the Biden administration, who continued to shower the floundering enterprise with American taxpayer dollars while saddling school systems with ill-considered and soon-to-be-worthless yard ornaments, as no – they won’t be servicing those warranty complaints.
The Biden administration awarded Canadian electric bus maker Lion Electric $159 million to manufacture 435 school buses between 2022 and 2024, making it the third-largest recipient of such funding. The company has since fallen into bankruptcy, failed to deliver hundreds of the buses it promised, and warned school districts that its dire financial straits prevent it from servicing those in circulation.
As a result, many of those districts are turning back to diesel.
The Washington Free Beacon reported earlier this year that Lion, then nearing bankruptcy, had yet to deliver $95 million worth of the electric buses it pledged to produce as part of the Biden administration’s $5 billion Clean School Bus program. Since then, Lion was sold for just $6 million during bankruptcy proceedings after being valued at $4.7 billion as recently as June 2021. The company also permanently shuttered multiple manufacturing plants, fired the majority of its employees, and told consumers that it could no longer honor warranties and purchase orders in the United States.
SURPRISE!
Whoda thunk it?
Only everybody but Kamala and crew.
New EPA head Lee Zeldin, who has been like a blue-tick hound on the trail of every misspent dollar his agency was handing out before he took over, had another bomb to drop about POTATUS and the rest of his marauding band of Green grifters.
Not only did Lion fail to deliver $95M worth of buses that were ordered, but the Biden EPA had written Lion a $160M check for the entire deal upfront.
PREPAID, HELLO
EPA head Lee Zeldin says the Biden administraiton sent $160 million dollars to a Canadian electric vehicles company…. which then pocketed the money, didn’t send the school buses promised and then declared bankruptcy!
“There was $160 million that went to a Canadian electric… pic.twitter.com/hANBqhFPfm
— Mike Netter (@nettermike) August 16, 2025
…“There was $160 million that went to a Canadian electric vehicle bus manufacturer. The Biden administration sent all of the money — They gave all the money up front. Well, guess what? They just declared bankruptcy.
They still haven’t provided $95 million worth of school buses to 55 school districts. It’s the American taxpayer that gets screwed.”
Wonder who from the Biden administration was on the take?
The school buses that have been delivered have resulted in nothing but heartburn and heart attacks. School districts that are ‘losing hope’ they’ll ever get the ones they ordered have, frankly, lost their little green minds.
…Several school districts across the country have completely removed their Lion buses from service over mechanical and safety concerns. A superintendent for a Midwest school district told industry publication Clean Trucking the district’s buses could not heat up in cold weather, lost steering and braking ability at times, had defective frames, and regularly displayed error messages that forced drivers to reset the vehicles.
“The buses do not run for more than a month before needing more repairs,” Coleen Souza, assistant to the superintendent of Winthrop Public Schools in Maine, told Clean Trucking.
School officials whose districts have not received the Lion buses the Biden administration had promised them are losing hope that their vehicles will ever arrive.
“We have not received any buses,” Dawn Wallace, superintendent of the Ohio Valley School District in Adams County, Ohio, told the Free Beacon. “At this point, we are not really hopeful that we will. We will maintain our diesel-powered fleet and, yes, continue to purchase those in the future.” Jason Stabler, superintendent of the Bureau Valley School District in Manlius, Ill., echoed Wallace’s concerns.
Thankfully, lost minds don’t appear to be catching.
Kamala: “I’m excited about electric school buses! I love electric school buses! I just love them for so many reasons! Maybe because I went to school on a school bus. Raise your hand if you went to school on a school bus!” pic.twitter.com/WgxtNUglq0
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) January 12, 2023
The money’s gone, the buses these school systems (some municipal transportation systems, too) have will, before long, start to develop gremlins of the electrical persuasion and crap out, with no warranty, probably no parts, and for darn sure no one to fix them.
Pray no one is hurt or injured or freezes to death on one of these buses in the meantime.
Zeldin’s EPA says they’re monitoring the Lion bankruptcy, but good luck with that – it’s a Canadian company, to start, and the multibillion-dollar boondoggle was just unloaded during a bankruptcy auction for a mere $6 million.
Not much on those bones for anyone to recover anything.
Almost like it’s by design. Like, seriously – where does $4.7B vaporize to?
Only the cultists seem to be able to pull that kind of scam off right up to the bitter end.
POOF! into the ether alongside with their unicorn fart promises.
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