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Posted on 10/14/2025 10:04:42 AM PDT by Signalman
Utilities, state governments, and private developers are racing to roll out faster, more powerful EV chargers. At the same time, automakers and tech giants across the globe are pouring billions into R&D to develop batteries that can take ever-higher levels of power. But what if there’s a better, easier, cheaper, and more effective way to cut emissions?
What if, instead of faster chargers, we pushed for SLOWER gas pumps?
I want to start this conversation by pointing out that there’s a precedent for this idea. Back in 1993, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule that limited the rate that gas service stations could pump fuel to a maximum of 10 gallons per minute (gpm), with the stated goals of reducing evaporative emissions and promoting safety by ensuring the integrity of the nation’s refueling infrastructure.
Officially dubbed “61 FR 33033 – Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Controls Applicable to Gasoline Retailers and Wholesale Purchaser-Consumers; 10 Gallon Per Minute Fuel Dispensing Limit Requirement Implementation,” the rule was finalized in January of 1993 and went into effect in 1996. Now, almost thirty years later, I think it’s time to revisit 61 FR 33033 in a way that helps reduce emissions even more.
The basic idea is this: instead of “just” asking for utility rate-payers and State or local governments to help cover the costs of rolling out an increasingly huge EV charging infrastructure that will never be big enough to convince the red hats it’s ready, anyway, we focus our lobbying efforts on slower gas pumps in blue states. Like, significantly slower gas pumps.
By reducing the maximum pumping speed from 10 gpm to 3 gpm, we could increase the minimum time to fill up a half-ton Ford F-150’s 36 gallon fuel tank (yes, really) from under four minutes to nearly twelve (12). Factor in the longer wait times ICE-vehicles would have to endure waiting in line to refuel, as well, and we’re talking about a 20-30 minute turnaround time to go from just 10% to a usable 80-or-90% fill.
Y’all see where I’m going with this?
Everybody wins
Way back in 2022, oil giant BP claimed that its BP Pulse electric vehicle chargers were “on the cusp” of being more profitable than its gas pumps. Now, three years and several technological leaps since, BP is investing billions to expand its EV charging infrastructure – and it doesn’t take a genius to realize that they’re expecting a positive ROI.
You don’t have to take my word for that, though. You can take big oil’s. “If I think about a tank of fuel versus a fast charge, we are nearing a place where the business fundamentals on the fast charge are better than they are on the (fossil) fuel,” BP head of customers and products, Emma Delaney, told Reuters.
Those fundamentals revolve around amenities. If you’re popping into a gas station for a three or four minute visit, you’re probably getting in and out as fast as you can. But if you’re there a bit longer? That’s a different story. You might visit the rest room, might buy a snack or order a coffee or suddenly remember you were supposed to pick up milk on your way home, even – and that stuff has a much higher margin for the gas station than the dino-juice, totaling 61.4% of all fuel station profits despite being a fraction of the overall revenue.
The other big winner, of course, is literally everyone. The forgotten costs of fossil fuels cost Americans billions in healthcare bills and environmental clean up each year, and untold trillions of dollars of military spending (to say nothing of the toll on three generations of American blood spilled in the Middle East to secure an affordable supply of oil).
With this plan, ICE-holes and Hemi zealots can continue to have their gas (if they decide it’s worth the wait, so be it). Meanwhile, the well-adjusted normals figure out real quick that it’s better, cheaper, and easier to charge at home.
The rest will take care of itself.
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Can’t compete? Get the government to limit the competition.
Is this from Babylon Bee?
Libs will think this has potential. If we just slow gas pumps down to the point at which it will take four hours to fill the tank, EVs will start to look much more attractive.
And libs will think this is a solution.
Just like they think the solution to closing racial gaps in academic achievement is to abandon standards and socially promote everyone to Ph.Ds.
A democrat wasn’t a law specifically intended to make things run less efficiently.
Not a surprise!
That’s all they ever do!
The only difference is, democrats used to cause waste, fraud and inefficiency by accident. IE: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
These days, there is no good intention.
It’s all just pure contempt and need to control everything, right out in the open.
How about we make batteries that can be recycled as easily as ICE cars so we don’t end up with an environmental disaster before too long.
ICE-holes? Nothing like a little class warfare to advance the revolution, Comrade. The smug is strong in this one.
Fast charging damages overall battery health and shortens battery life. To this day, the battery manuals state that to maximize battery life, only charge up to 80%, and do not let the charge go below 20%.
“We can’t win with technology, so let’s win with inconvenience!”
(To match routine EV charging rates, I’d need a teaspoon to transfer the gas to my V8’s tank).
Joe Boras writes “ICE-holes and Hemi zealots can continue to have their gas”. I’m sorry but this guy is the most arrogant prick on the planet. The environmental authoritarians think they control everyone, e.g. shutting down hydro power, stopping timber harvesting because a SPECIFIC TYPE of spotted owl might be threatened, although the other types are thriving, 2 inch long fish causing reservoirs to be shut down so California communities and people burn... In reality these monsters want to eliminate 7 billion people from the planet because it would make them feel empowered and give their lives meaning. Put another way, they want Liebensraum, you can look up what that means and who said it.
>>At the same time, automakers and tech giants across the globe are pouring billions into R&D to develop batteries that can take ever-higher levels of power.
The solution, obviously, is to limit EV chargers to 1 AMP max.
Refueling equity?
Dude’s a nutter.
It’s hard to tell these days.
How quickly before someone invents a double nozzle funnel so you can fill from your pump and the one next to it or on its reverse side?
Lots of us still remember that Leaded Gas nozzles were larger and flow rate lost with the lead free crap
Seems to me that this screed is a tacit admission that, outside of a very narrow use case, electric vehicles are an abject failure and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
Seriously. The Bee’s got stiff competition from real life. Isn’t this textbook communism? Bring everyone down to the lowest level.
Gee Clinton.
Again.
HEAR ME OUT:
We get bicycles to pedal a fuel pump, and the EV people get bicycles to charge a battery.
We’re done in 10 minutes and they’re done in 10 months.
that’s equity, baby.
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