{"id":290146,"date":"2023-12-06T19:20:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=290146"},"modified":"2023-12-06T19:20:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:20:32","slug":"congress-spent-billions-on-an-ev-charging-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=290146","title":{"rendered":"Congress Spent Billions On An EV Charging Network."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By\u00a0Joe Cunningham<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is ample evidence out there that the\u00a0electric vehicle<\/a>\u00a0market isn’t growing the way the Biden administration wants it to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Biden wants is for half the country to be driving electric vehicles within the next decade, but even with direct government interference in the marketplace, there is no desire from at least half the population. RedState<\/a><\/strong> has the Story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s more, there are still technical issues, like a lack of charging stations across the country, batteries that lose efficiency in the colder months, a power grid that can’t sustain a mass transition to EVs, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of those problems, POLITICO is focusing on the first this morning<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later, the program has yet to install a single charger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2014 let alone begin construction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It appears that bureaucratic red tape isn’t conducive to building and manufacturing, whether the government wants you to be making things or not. Quite the conundrum!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POLITCO refers to vague federal reports that EV demand is growing in the country, but most EVs remain out of the average American’s price range. Even with tax breaks, the Biden administration expects you to pay upfront and just wait around for a tax rebate later, which is not how Americans actually behave when it comes to money most of the time – especially when those same Americans are terrified of the current state of the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congressman Chip Roy of Texas did an excellent job recently in tearing apart the Biden administration’s foolishness on this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SOUND ON \ud83d\udd0a Rep. Roy lays out the TRUTH about the Biden administration's delusional electric vehicle fantasies pic.twitter.com\/Ml40ShB3L1<\/a><\/p>— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) December 5, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>