The video below shows feckless, completely unqualified Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg trying to defend the Biden/Harris regime’s spending $8 billion to build just 8 EV charging stations since the passage of the Orwellian Inflation Reduction Act. Watch as CNBC host Joe Kernen listens in disbelief.
Transcript:
Kernen: Wondering is it to say that that our designs on on electrification of the auto industry, have we recalibrated there? And I'll just give you one item and you can maybe you can explain why, but under the Inflation Reduction Act, 7.5 billion for building these charging stations, the latest information. Eight have been built with the 7.5 billion that had been allocated. You're supposed to get to 500,000 of these charging stations by 2030. What is really the problem with you? If you looked at that and figured out why?
Buttigieg: Oh yeah, that's, that's on track. So we're at about 190,000 publicly available charging stations in the US. That's approximately double what the level was when President Biden came in. The issue, though, is that there are some gaps in the market, ones that are just not going to be built by the private sector that's been building the construction of those chargers to date. That's why the legislation provided for funding to do federally supported chargers that are intended to be online before 2030. Now the bulk of that construction will happen in 2728. Quite a bit actually. I expect by 2026. A handful, as you mentioned, are actually already up and running. But really what you're going to see is more the second half of this decade. And it's really important to have those federally supported chargers because you have stretches of road or even just in the middle of our cities, apartment buildings, places in our economy where it just doesn't yet pencil out for there to be the private sector profitably doing that. And, you know, even though about 80% of EV charging happens at home, the reality is the the new E, the kind of landscape we're working toward, where the president's goal is about half of sales to be EVs by the end of this decade requires us by the end of this decade to have a lot of charging apparatus that just isn't there as we're sitting here in 2024.
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So basically, Buttigieg’s narrative is that it is perfectly fine the government has utterly wasted $8 billion because the private sector - mainly Tesla - has performed so well.
If the Pete Buttigieg’s of the world did not already exist, you could never make them up in a million billion years, and nobody in their right mind would ever dream of trying.
That is all.
So if it’s not penciled out for private industry to be profitable why would the federal government do it? If 80% of charging is done at home are there then a plethora of bev and plug in ev’s at apartment complexes? Where housing is purportedly less expensive than single family homes? And given the huge cost to purchase an ev - thus makes sense? Well let me be the latest of several million to call him an abject idiot.
Pretzel logic-Pete’s specialty