Yellow school buses are going green with a $1 billion investment | US EPA funding will allow school districts to purchase electric and low-emission buses (www.washingtonpost.com)

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[-] kevin_alt2@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I agree with your conclusion but I think you have your numerator and denominator swapped.

$1,000,000,000 / 339,996,563 citizens = ~$2.94 / citizen

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 2 points 9 months ago

Yep, thanks! Was doing it in a rush on mobile, but yeah, basically same conclusion. And it's out of money the government already took from everybody so it's not like everyone has to dig in the couch to find $3, they already gave it to the IRS ages ago.

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