Just a short note, something that should not be at all surprising. Just as drivers and airlines are feeling the pitch of skyrocketing fuel prices, so are school systems. As an example, Nova Scotia’s Acadia school board is now working to get a new school bus contract. The previous contract paid on a student-mile fee basis. The contract didn’t account for the possibility of skyrocketing fuel prices.
We’ve operated for three years and we got significantly hammered,” he told CBC News on Wednesday. “We suffered significant losses because we’re locked in.”
In 2006, a litre of diesel was 86 cents. It’s about $1.30 now.
The school board is understanding.
“We didn’t see fuel costs increasing at the levels we’re seeing today,” said CSAP Supt. Darrell Samson. “No one could predict that, and I understand that.”
Actually, there are those who did “predict” this, who were talking of $100 barrel oil years ago. But, that is spilt milk.
Time to look to the future.
Perhaps it is time to be thinking seriously about PHESBs (plug-in hybrid electric school buses) to make a dent in this skyrocketing bills?