| Dear Friend, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is barreling ahead with his plan to spend $11.3 billion on a new fleet of 165,000 gas-guzzling mail delivery trucks that will stay on the roads for decades.(1) These trucks will add to air pollution just as a U.N. report shows how climate change is devastating our communities.(2) And, DeJoy’s order flies in the face of President Biden’s directive to have the entire government fleet go electric. Despite the passage of the Postal Service Reform Act, Louis DeJoy is still damaging the post office in myriad ways. Enough is enough. Congress is considering a bill to stop DeJoy from buying his gas-guzzling fleet, and Courage California needs you to add your voice calling for it to pass. Sign on now and tell Congress to block Louis DeJoy’s bad USPS truck deal! Currently, USPS vehicles average only 8.6 mpg, a terrible pollutant. The new vehicles would improve that number by only 0.4 mpg.(3) That's the same fuel efficiency as a Hummer. Electric trucks, on the other hand, would save the U.S. Postal Service $4.3 billion and be better for the environment.(4) Moreover, DeJoy pushed through the deal with a Wisconsin-based company based on hiring union workers to make the vehicles, and then the company immediately moved its operation to South Carolina, where it can hire non-union employees.(5) It’s not too late to stop this catastrophic plan. The bill introduced by Representative Gerry Connolly would prohibit the USPS from enacting a vehicle contract without the fleet containing at least 75% electric vehicles. We need to sound an alarm for Congress before 165,000 more polluting trucks are in production. Sign our petition telling Congress: The USPS contract must require at least 75% electric trucks. Yours in the fight to save the USPS, Irene, along with Amber, Angela, Annie, Isidra, Jay, Lindsay, LisaMarie, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team) Footnotes:  |
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