There are so many arguments against EV automobiles: Supply chain dependence on a communist country, reliance on China for the batteries that power the EVs, pollution caused by mining for cobalt and lithium which if you don’t know, is done by Chinese slave labor. Top that with a dearth of electric power generation thanks to Biden’s pro-CCP policies to throttle us against drilling for our own energy supply in ANWR and elsewhere in the USA where there’s plenty of “liquid gold underneath us.”
And persistent reliability problems with existing charging stations.
There are yet more problems and challenges than can be outlined here.
Example: .”..unlike the ATM or vending box, the charging station wouldn’t get the full customer treatment. It wouldn’t be located under an awning, or be particularly well-lit or observed by security cameras. Instead, the electric car would be treated more like, well, a car. Stations were sited out in the elements, in the middle or at the edges of a parking lots, far from watchful eyes and easy targets for vandals.”
If you listen to what President Trump says about EVs, one gets the distinct impression that he’s not particularly enamored of the Vanity Vehicle.
“Former President Donald Trump has railed against subsidies for EVs and the infrastructure that powers them, arguing the market should dictate what type of car Americans drive. But he has also relentlessly attacked EVs for their range and the dearth of chargers — the issue Biden is aiming to solve with the infrastructure law funds.
“They say the happiest day when you buy an electric car is the first 10 minutes you’re driving it, and then after that, panic sets in because you’re worried, ‘Where the hell am I going to get a charge to keep this thing going?’” Trump said at a September rally with autoworkers in Michigan.
At Tuesday night’s (Dec. 5) Town Hall with Sean Hannity, Trump said:
“I am an environmentalist, but we’re going to destroy our country with this green new deal stuff. It doesn’t work. We have so much wealth and power under our feet. No other country has it. China doesn’t have it. Why are we going to electric? They (China) do have what you need to do the batteries, but they don’t have what you need to do the gasoline. We (do) have — and it’s what people want to drive right now, and there’s a little story about it and you’re gonna hear about it in a little while, but I guarantee they (dealerships) have so many electric vehicles, nobody wants to buy ’em. They’re expensive, although you could probably get them cheap now… but nobody wants to buy them.”
Hannity: Three thousand dealers around the country wrote Biden and said please stop making us sell something they don’t want. Four and a half billion dollars.
Trump: You know the government is subsidizing that. Every time you make a car, we give you thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars (in subsidies). And the people don’t want them. And you know, I’m not knocking electric cars. We should sell electric. But we should also sell combustion engine gasoline cars. We can sell hybrids. The hybrids are fine. We should be able to buy everything. Some people might like an electric car. We should be able to buy an electric car. But to say that we’re not gonna do (internal combustion engines) — and this is our strength because we have this stuff under the ground…
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/congress-ev-chargers-billions-00129996
In the House in November, GOP lawmakers offered amendments to the transportation spending bill to strip funding from the charging programs created by the infrastructure law.”
“Not only is such an endeavor not the federal government’s responsibility, this program doesn’t work, won’t work and will end up wasting massive amounts of federal money,” Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) argued on the House floor.
*** HOORAY FOR HARRIET!!!***
(Ground control to Cape Canaveral… do you copy?)
Maybe that’s why my city’s elected council unanimously voted to get into the EV charging business by installing six dual-plug Level 2 (i.e .slow) chargers throughout our city. To help Biden in his push to make American drivers go all electric? To demonstrate that we care about the environment?
We barrier island folk do and always have been environmentally sensitive, without the necessity to ‘prove it’ with an inappropriate venture into the EV charging business that will cost We The Taxpayers an initial outlay without guarantee of profit. Some might wonder if it’s Virtue signaling.
Maybe that’s it? To assist Green Joe’s taxpayer funded /subsidized boondoggle? Because it’s good to “Build Better” by being “Resilient” and “Green?”
EV owners who choose to spend $55,000 or more to buy government subsidized vanity vehicles need to juice up. Is it up to a municipality to provide it?
I might be wrong, but I don’t think our unanimously consenting Council thought this through, considering the multitude of ramifications they’ve entered into.
Look, if people want to go all electric, more “power” to them, but there’s a problem doing it at taxpayers’ expense. I’ve searched, but I can’t find it in the Constitution where it states that federal government can do this. And yet they are.
At the local level, when the issue over whether to involve a city in a business — any business — is not put before We the Taxpaying Voters, an argument can justifiably be made that Council action that does so does not reflect representative government. Period.
In the City of Cape Canaveral’s example, it doesn’t matter how cleverly a city employee wordsmiths it, or city lawyers twist language that justify taking thousands of tax dollars ($112,000) out of our pockets to assuage EV owners’ “range anxiety,” the point is, We The Taxpayers weren’t given a choice. Had we been, and had we agreed by popular referendum vote to become shareholders in an EV charging business, this would be a different story and I wouldn’t be writing about it.
Other reader COMMENTS:
“Is ANYBODY in our govt. going to put the brakes on this guy throwing around Billion$ of our tax money to complete sinkhole projects & countries???”
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“So obvious question. Where did all that funding end up going and to who? That is the question we should be asking.“
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“Who was awarded the contract? Let’s see what politician’s family member got this contract. Were they all in Ukraine?”
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Further reading:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/20/trump-biden-ev-policies-00107437
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/12/america-ev-chargers-keep-breaking-heres-why-00089181
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/congress-ev-chargers-billions-00129996
Wow!!This is shades of Solyndra and how soon we forget that was half a billion taxpayer dollars never repaid.
You have a corrupt President and a corrupt cabinet spending billions on proj3cts the American populace do not want or need, funded through a corrupt Congress. What could possibly go wrong? The goal- beggar the working man while those previously mentioned virtue signal. Our founding fathers are wondering what happened to 5he spirit that created We The People and when WE will have had enough to cry BS and take back the country they fought to give us.
It is possible those funds are languishing in an off shore account somewhere. Just saying.
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