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A niche opened up, buy ebusses, lock school boards into 10-20 year contracts to save 10-20% on fuels costs and have zero capital/maintenance costs. The bus com

A niche opened up, buy ebusses, lock school boards into 10-20 year contracts to save 10-20% on fuels costs and have zero capital/maintenance costs. The bus company lives on the ~~60-70% fuels cost saving and finances the bus fleet. Typical contract to see to various users with short terms viewpoints. I would like to see what the board savings are in a sample of a lease - most will be under NDA's I expect?

asdff 5y ago
Niche is already exploited. School boards have already been contracting out busing. Diesel/CNG contractors will just retool and charge more for green tax to school boards that want to pay.
rootusrootus 5y ago
> most will be under NDA's I expect? What are the odds that school districts are even legally allowed to sign such an NDA?
- aurizon 5y ago
  Hard to say. Most contracts are public access files. but I am not sure if there are redactions for competitive reasons?
  - rootusrootus 5y ago
    To prove I'm an optimist, I'll say that most levels of government in the US must have transparency regulations that would prevent them from being bound by any kind of NDA. Otherwise the potential for corruption is pretty significant. Like I said, I'm an optimist. If you trust google search, my 2 minute research suggests the federal government explicitly disallows NDAs from binding them, and that in government overall NDAs are really rare. But that information is worth roughly how much it cost me to search for it.
    - aurizon 5y ago
      Yes, That fits. People need transparency as far as possible. For example, prison phone systems are onerous monopolies that oppress prisoners with enormous connection fees. Apparently the various prisons accept bids = the largest fee paid to the prison system is the winner - who then extract the max fees from inmates. The spectrum auction looks, on the face of it, to be a simple bidding process. Sadly the winners than pay billions to the feds and the winners then extort cell phone and internet users for fees - in the mean time, those billions that could have made US wideband universal and lower in cost are sucked into the political maw and wasted, oligarch style = USA lags behind dozens of countries due to this corruption.

asdff 5y ago

Niche is already exploited. School boards have already been contracting out busing. Diesel/CNG contractors will just retool and charge more for green tax to school boards that want to pay.

rootusrootus 5y ago

> most will be under NDA's I expect? What are the odds that school districts are even legally allowed to sign such an NDA?

aurizon 5y ago
Hard to say. Most contracts are public access files. but I am not sure if there are redactions for competitive reasons?
- rootusrootus 5y ago
  To prove I'm an optimist, I'll say that most levels of government in the US must have transparency regulations that would prevent them from being bound by any kind of NDA. Otherwise the potential for corruption is pretty significant. Like I said, I'm an optimist. If you trust google search, my 2 minute research suggests the federal government explicitly disallows NDAs from binding them, and that in government overall NDAs are really rare. But that information is worth roughly how much it cost me to search for it.
  - aurizon 5y ago
    Yes, That fits. People need transparency as far as possible. For example, prison phone systems are onerous monopolies that oppress prisoners with enormous connection fees. Apparently the various prisons accept bids = the largest fee paid to the prison system is the winner - who then extract the max fees from inmates. The spectrum auction looks, on the face of it, to be a simple bidding process. Sadly the winners than pay billions to the feds and the winners then extort cell phone and internet users for fees - in the mean time, those billions that could have made US wideband universal and lower in cost are sucked into the political maw and wasted, oligarch style = USA lags behind dozens of countries due to this corruption.