There is a significant difference in building out original infrastructure, compared to using tax payer dollars to fund the next competing service.
Sorry you cannot understand that. We have a significant Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure. A Nat Gas Vehicle Fueling station is just another customer on the same lines.
It doesn’t need my tax dollars to work. It didn’t need my tax dollars to build the NatGas station near where I live. It doesn’t need our tax dollars to build one near you either.
My property tax bill includes trash pick-up, schools, roads, water, sewer and all government infrastructure and associated operating expenses, parks, etc, etc. I expect yours does too. Sorry you don’t understand that those, by your definition, are “original infrastructure”.
For me, the definitions of "original infrastructure" and "the next competing service" that may help explain where I'm coming from. The "original infrastructure" in the place now called the USA was fire, candles, forests, water, land and the minerals on or beneath them. Then came whale oil and horse trails.
Several hundred years later came the industrial revolution that sparked the "the next competing service", the wonderful new discoveries/inventions of electricity, oil and natural gas that eventually resulted in power being delivered to our homes throughout the mainly rural USA through copper cables and steel pipelines. Some of this infrastructure was funded privately but much of it was subsidized by various combinations of private AND public sources. The actual mining of the natural fuel resources was/is operated mainly by private enterprise but some, such as coal, water, nuclear, oil and NatGas are either closely regulated by government agencies or come from land owned outright by government. All of this has been happening over another couple hundred years of development and is still happening via new technological advancements of so-called "green energy" sources -- all of it funded in some manner by various government agencies. We are still in "the next competing service". Much of "the next competing service" is deteriorated and due for a "next competing service v2" which will need much more government funding and regulation to accomplish.
NatGas as a transportation fuel is a relatively new development in the USA; why is it not subsidized just as the government subsidizes power infrastructure that comes from the electric wall plugs and NatGas lines in our homes and businesses and the rail and highway transportation infrastructure?