Posted on 09/14/2023 8:46:58 AM PDT by Lockbox
The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) was announced last year with a budget of $5 billion. It was meant from the get-go to help states, agencies, and local authorities advance EV charging over a five-year period. The plan was to spend around $1 billion every 12 months.
Around $500 million were set aside so federal authorities could direct funds exactly where they wanted them to be used. One such case is fixing or outright replacing existing EV chargers that are no longer in use or have been abandoned. The initiative consumes 20% of that budget.
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I also love the government funding EV chargers but not the repairs.... 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐
I didn’t vote for this!
And how do EVs pay the road tax in gas prices?
One of the many things those rinos in congress aren’t working on fixing while they squawk “trump! trump!”.
If the failure rate of chargers is so high, it must be because there is no profit in the sale of electricity at the point of sale to cover land and equipment. It’s not like we’re talking about antiques and old broken down second hand junk.
i guess free enterprise sees them as a suckers gambol...
so enter the federal gov right on que
The fact of the matter is that government can’t do anything right today. It’s because 99% of government employees are worthless rejects that can’t make it the private sector.
Think about this: it used to be that a man with an 8th grade education could open a service station, sell gasoline and repair automobiles. He could do that while raising a family with four or five children. Everyone in government is far less than a man like that. They are pathetic, anti-American pieces of chit.
If this whole insane system was rational people who run gas stations would install and maintain their own chargers - for a competitive price.
I don’t want Pervert Biden to pay for gas station repairs either.
The climate cultists’ EV wet dream is not going to work.
And how do EVs pay the road tax in gas prices?
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Simple, the feds will pay them!
I wondered how long that crap was last. Everything John and Jane Q. Public put their hands on turns to crap.
Next thing you know, we’ll be sending billions to repair EV chargers in Ukraine.
If the failure rate of chargers is so high...
“You will drive an EV. You will own nothing. And you will like it”.
WE are paying for this 🐂💨💩.
Comsidered “infrastructure” because the government wants people in EVs.
They may pay for yours but they will then put conditions on your charger you’d never agree to.
“why do I need to pay for a charge?”
If the government pays for the water pipes to your house, you still need to pay for the water that comes out of them.
Wonder how long before the street people start taking them and holding them for ransom.
didn’t we already pay a property tax?
The proper question is “why is government in the water business?”
“If this whole insane system was rational people who run gas stations would install and maintain their own chargers - for a competitive price.”
The EV supporters say that government subsidy is necessary until a “critical mass” of EVs and charging stations is reached. Then private investors will become interested.
I’m not sure where an EV is now cost-effective against our “orchestras of pistons”. Perhaps delivery vehicles or buses, but I don’t see those around where I live.
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