Hint: start with the high ground
Amazingly enough, it's all free until the bill arrives.
How much copper is $74 billion?
Schumer just made a statement that there should be no ICE vehicles on the road in 20 years. This is madness, a prescription for impoverishment. You simply can’t make an infrastructure shift of that magnitude in 20 years.
And the idea that government planners are going to figure this all out, and do it all with “equity” in mind, should lead to catcalls and howls of derision towards those proposing it. This is Central Planning writ large. We know what lies at the end of that road, and it isn’t pretty.
In the absence of government pork, chargers would go where they would naturally make sense: parking lots, motels, restaurants.
Ping
Hint: start with the high ground
Not going to work in winter in colder states.
Better solution is LP Natural Gas vehicles and available everywhere.
174 million? Is this the commitee to form a commitee to study where to put these things and set a budget to install chargers? Wth... We sent more money to hamassses
Put the mentally dim Greta on the problem
She will come up with something
There won’t be enough room for the number they’ll need if all the vehicles are going to be electric considering the amount of time it takes to charge an electric vehicle.
Charging stations are already obsolete and they aren’t even built yet - as I predict these cars will eventually be built with interchangeable battery cells. Much like a propane tank for a BBQ grill, a driver will just switch it out, rather than sit at a station for two hours.
My message to the author (Annie White)—the perfect location has been found:
Uranus!
Where?
Easy.
Just let these morons buy their electric cars and then watch the highways and interstates to see where the clumps of them running out of battery juice stall out.
Then put in chargers stations that charge for the kilowatts with the energy equivalent of gasoline at the rate of $20 a gallon.
Gasoline is the most efficient storage medium of energy ever devised by mankind. Electrical vehicles on a mass scale is an impossible dream. What is being sold as universal will be very limited and THAT is the goal- to restrict ALL personal travel. The mandating of electric vehicles is a path to tyranny - our liberty is to be taken away. Charging stations can be instantly turned off by tyrants and you are frozen in place. The excuse will be “we have to limit electricity for necessary use.”
We noticed in our democrat run town that the town employees would charge their personal electric vehicles at the city hall outlets on the building while they were “ working”.
Nice. The taxpayers were paying for filling their electric tanks (batteries).
How do we get such a deal?
in my town, there are plenty of EV chargers in the parking lots and i’ve yet to see a car parked at one. It is probably because they are at the end of the lots where folks would have to walk.
Unintended consequences can be a B-word.
I fondly recall weekends where I could find my father, along with my grandfather, tinkering with the family automobiles. Greasing bearings, checking belt tension, cars needed attention from time to time if you expected them to last. People with more disposable income had the servicing done for them.
I picked up the knack for mechanics from my elders and continue it with my cars today. But I don’t have to tend to my vehicles every single day.
The thought that occurs to me is that we allowed an evolution to take place with our machines that has encouraged benign neglect. Cars are engineered to last a greater amount of time with far less routine maintenance. Grease the steering? Nonsense, we don’t even provide zerk fittings any longer!
And now the left is orchestrating a sea-change event that will reverse all of that. Instead of hopping in the car and simply driving their vehicles (filling the tank once a week) they will, by necessity, be forced to fuss with cables and connections and status checks. God help you if you forget! In a gas-powered vehicle you make a quick side trip to grab a fill-up. In an electric you pray that you can find a hook-up and time to charge.
It should prove amusing watching intrinsically lazy people forced to subordinate themselves to their machines.
The new Ford truck has a battery bank of 115kWH. Do any of these idiots (I know) pushing electric cars know simple math? Regardless of the battery technology you still have to move a whole lotta electricity in a short amount of time. It will be fun when the ferals start vandalizing unused chargers built in the ‘hood for the sake of equity.