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Stick with the windmills.
1 posted on 02/22/2025 5:43:40 AM PST by Libloather
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Time needed to charge a vehicle and the EV fire hazard alone justify this move.

Drill, Baby, Drill!


2 posted on 02/22/2025 5:47:29 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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Wouldn’t it be better to leave them up and running and charge people to use them at roughly the same price as we pay for gas at a service station?


3 posted on 02/22/2025 5:48:18 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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4 posted on 02/22/2025 5:48:55 AM PST by BipolarBob (Before judging remember, we've all kicked a pregnant woman in the stomach before.)
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LOL! Every day it’s something new to drive the left even more insane. Anyone notice not a word from Pelosi? I really think she’s in a padded room wearing a straight jacket.


5 posted on 02/22/2025 5:50:30 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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Do the employees get to charge their personal cars for free?


8 posted on 02/22/2025 5:53:27 AM PST by Doctor Congo
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Wind and solar are great if you don’t have access to the grid or don’t need a reliable power source. Government subsidies do not improve the product, competition does. EV’s have their place but I’m unable to come up with such a place in my life.


10 posted on 02/22/2025 5:53:39 AM PST by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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Why? Are the ports defective? A lot of folks are driving either EVs or hybrids these days, at least they are in the Bay Area near San Francisco.


13 posted on 02/22/2025 5:55:23 AM PST by lee martell
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I would venture a guess that most of these are not located in DC, but all across the country. I would also venture a guess that people don’t even bother charging their EV’s at home, but just do it at work on the taxpayer’s dime.


19 posted on 02/22/2025 5:58:28 AM PST by randita
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I was this close to getting a Federal job and requesting my free gasoline since there are free EV chargers. When they say NO, I sue!


20 posted on 02/22/2025 5:59:28 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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Unless there was a mechanism to levy charging fees on personal vehicles, this should be reported to the IRS as income.
While you get mileage payments for official travel with your personal vehicle, commuting to your regular duty station isn’t refundable.

Perfect place for OPM/DOGE to look for a “claw-back” (IRS audits anyone?).


31 posted on 02/22/2025 6:17:25 AM PST by S. D. Waters (My life is an open book, but it's badly written and I die at the end)
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In our town, EV charger is free. Us “no EV ever” folks have to pay for the gas to fill our car.


32 posted on 02/22/2025 6:19:54 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Stop mandating EV School Buses.


34 posted on 02/22/2025 6:20:28 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Not the big, modern windmills that chop up birds and then are nearly impossible to dispose of reasonably when they inevitably underperform expectations/promises.


36 posted on 02/22/2025 6:21:32 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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Yes. Those same federal buildins do not supply gas pumps for the regular cars.

For EVs to be a true success, they need infrastructure the private sector builds because there is a good ROI for the private sector to do it. Any government subsidized system is going to be weak in terms of economic efficiency, without the subsidies, become soft and dependent on the subsidies and never become viable on their own.


37 posted on 02/22/2025 6:22:19 AM PST by Wuli (qq)
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Seems stupid or spiteful to take out the EV chargers. If charging is currently free that’s easily fixed.


42 posted on 02/22/2025 6:35:46 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Election day 2024, Happy Days Are Here Again!)
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45 posted on 02/22/2025 6:40:55 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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Why do they need EVs if they work at home.


52 posted on 02/22/2025 7:06:31 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cartel Human Smuggling Into America IS NOT Immigration. It's a crime.)
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56 posted on 02/22/2025 7:19:11 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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Back around 2000, I was part of an engineering team that redesigned the EPA’s first HQ for the next tenant. In the parking garage were a row of parking stalls with chargers for GM’s first EV, that was a total failure. The chargers were demo ‘ed.


57 posted on 02/22/2025 7:22:03 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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Ruh roh Scooby.


59 posted on 02/22/2025 7:27:39 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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