Now is not the financial time to buy electric school bus

The school board made the right decision last week to pull the plug on accepting a federal grant to purchase an electric school bus.

Just because the EPA grant would have covered 90% of the purchase price doesn’t mean it was a good fit for Wrangell at this time. In this case, board members discussed it at a public meeting and voted down the idea.

But it was a close vote, with two of the five board members wanting to go ahead with the purchase.

It was a close vote because there are good reasons to run an electric bus rather than continue burning diesel. Climate change emissions, of course, but...