Posted on 08/06/2025 9:58:47 AM PDT by John Semmens
Former President Biden's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021 appropriated $7.5 billion for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula (NEVI) and the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program (CFI). Four years later all the money has been spent but only 384 EV charging stations have been built. That averages out at $19 million per station.
The Trump Administration is refusing to commit any more funds to either NEVI or CFI. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy insisted that "it's time we stop wasting the taxpayers' money on this stuff. EVs are too expensive to compete against gasoline-fueled vehicles."
Former Transportation Secretary and a leading contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination Pete Buttigieg disagreed, saying "we've made a dent in the 500,000 EV charging ports we projected would be needed by 2030. It would be foolish to stop now."
Duffy said "the notion that we should continue down this road is foolish. Of the 219,000 privately funded EV charging ports in the US only 56,000 are level 3 chargers--meaning it takes an hour to give a vehicle the power to travel 200 miles. The rest are level 2 chargers--meaning it takes an hour to give a vehicle the power to travel 25 miles. It only takes five minutes to pump enough gasoline to go 400 miles. Charging EVs is very time-consuming. Level 3 chargers cost about $180,000 to purchase and install. Gasoline pumps cost about $24,000 to purchase and install. Why should taxpayers have to foot the bill for the far more expensive, yet far less convenient EV system?"
But can us conservatives at least get our numbers right? "Of the 219,000 privately funded EV charging ports in the US only 56,000 are level 3 chargers--meaning it takes an hour to give a vehicle the power to travel 200 miles." Um. No. In fact, the privately funded level 3 charges are the best. A year ago last August I traveled 1,740 miles from point A to point B and all but one charger took only 10-15 minutes to get me the next 200 miles. That's because I avoided the public funded ones. EV's are like anything else -- the private sector/free market is when it's best.
It might be interesting to see who was actually paid all this money for such a paltry number of charging stations. Inquiring minds would like to know.
The money was frittered away by bureaucrats and the consultants they hired.
Yes, but who are these people who the money was paid to? I’ll give great odds they were an assortment of queers, dykes, trannies and “minorities” and probably at least one or two connected to bidet..
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