Let's check in on how saving the planet with our tax dollars is going:
Uh-huh. Yeah. two years in, $7.5 billion appropriated. So far, ZERO vehicle chargers installed.
States and the charger industry blame the delays mostly on the labyrinth of new contracting and performance requirements they have to navigate to receive federal funds. While federal officials have authorized more than $2 billion of the funds to be sent to states, fewer than half of states have even started to take bids from contractors to build the chargers — let alone begin construction.
And these guys think that we can be OFF of fossil fuels by 2040?
They have had 3 years to figure this out and they can't get ONE charger online?
Not a single one?
That helps explain the comedy of errors from the Department of Energy a few months ago:
I think the government building car chargers is a waste of money. We should really be focusing on reducing red tape across the board (especially with drilling for oil and gas) and letting private companies worry about building charging infrastructure to meet demand. Central planning never works.
BUT, if you're gonna spend $7.5 billion on something you'd expect maybe one charger get built!
Getting chargers up and running across the country is essential to reaching President Joe Biden's goal of having half the vehicles sold in the United States be electric by the end of the decade — a key cog of his climate agenda. Americans consistently say the lack of charging infrastructure is one of the top reasons they won't buy an electric car.
HALF of ALL cars are supposed to be electric by 2030?
If the government continues to build electric car chargers at the current rate then by the year 2030 we'll have approximately (double checks the math...) ZERO!
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