Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned in Seattle against diesel-powered school buses, arguing they harm children.
“Today, 95 percent of our school buses are fueled with diesel fuel, which contributes to very serious conditions that are about health and about the ability to learn,” she said during her remarks, referring to the pollution caused by school buses.
Despite her criticism, Harris talked fondly of the traditional yellow school bus.
“Who doesn’t love a yellow school bus, right?” she asked the audience, encouraging them to raise their hands if they had similar happy memories of traveling on the bus to school.
Harris recalled the “nostalgia” and “excitement and joy” of going to school on a bus.
“There’s something about most of us, many of us went to school on the yellow school bus, right?” she said. “And it’s part of our experience growing up.”
Electric school buses, according to Harris, symbolized everything the Biden administration stood for, including rescuing the earth from global warming.
“We owe it to our children to, right now, take these issues very seriously. The clock is ticking loudly,” she said. “We are witnessing, around our country and the world, the effects of extreme climate.”