7.5 billion for a fake talking point?
Congress at the urging of the Biden administration agreed in 2021 to spend $7.5 billion to build tens of thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the country, aiming to appease anxious drivers while tackling climate change.
Two years later, the program has yet to install a single charger.
Obviously it doesn't take two years to create an electric vehicle charger. People have them installed for electric cars all the time. The simple fact is that that only a portion of this money has been allocated to states and none of those states have even started getting bids from contractors.
Now the the "tens of thousands" suggests more than 10,000 and less than 100,000 by any reasonable standard. If it was 10,000 they would say 10,000 or if it was over 100,000 then they would say over 100,000. So if we do some simple math we will find that they believe it takes somewhere between $75,000 and $750,000 to build a single charger? Seriously?
Let's be real here folks. The Biden team just wants to tell their green energy croud that they are funding this stuff. I think most people realize that the "funding" is not the same thing as "doing" at this point. Moreover, most of the "funding" for green energy has been little more than a complete and total waste of money and continues to be. Even if they build 100,000 chargers at $75,000 a piece, that seems like a waste. Would 2000 chargers per state help the situation? Perhaps, but that depends on where they are at and how accessible they are. Given it is unlikely that a charging station would not include at least 5 or more charges to make any sense, suddenly you have considerably fewer place to go to. There would be probably 10% of the amount of gas stations that are out there.
Moreover, you still cannot just hop into a charging station, put the charger on, go inside and purchase a soda and bag of chips and be on your way. Nope, you are stuck there for the 30 minutes or more it take to charge your car. This is not a gas station where the stop is little more than a few minutes.
Either way... whether the goal is 10,000 or 100,000 the reality is we currently sit at 0. That is about par for the course as it pertains to the Biden administration.
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