“State transportation agencies are the recipients of the money,” he said. “Nearly all of them had no experience deploying electric vehicle charging stations before this law was enacted.”
Biden didn’t do jack shit, face it libs, your president sucked. Maybe trump was rotten in some ways but he got shit done. I bet you’re all voting for genocide joe anyway, Libtards never learn.
So it’s run into logistical challenges that are taking awhile to get past
Sounds about right when building new infrastructure
Isn’t that what they said with hydrogen fuel cells as they grifted away a decade continuing to invest in car infrastructure instead of pedestrian, bike, and rail?
EVs are the new hydrogen fuel cells. They’re not about saving the environment, they’re about saving the auto industry.
So volunteer to let them drill for oil in your back yard? Is that the answer since anything that takes more time or more money than that is obviously not a worthwhile solution.
Even expanding public transport takes time to build infrastructure and contractors would need to get paid, you know, “funnelling money” to them. None of it is a one presidency job and none of it is free.
Some of us told you Biden’s climate bills were performance and pork and wouldn’t make any difference. Some of us told you the goal was to funnel money to political allies, not save the environment.
You told us to vote harder and donate more money to Democrats in the midterms and it would work out somehow.
Yeah. How’s that “most environmentally friendly president in history” talking point working out?
Per the article:
“State transportation agencies are the recipients of the money,” he said. “Nearly all of them had no experience deploying electric vehicle charging stations before this law was enacted.”
So the money is there, it’s just taking time.
How does this refute the message you replied to?
Because he’s arguing the work is happening, just slowly and is not just a way to funnel and steal money? The opposite of the comment he’s replying to?
The work that’s chosen is funneling money away.
Almost like work costs money and it takes time to do said work and gain the experience to do it faster…
Or maybe Biden should have snapped his fingers and Tesla would build 50k more stations for free? Is that how it’s supposed to work?
Biden shouldn’t give money to the auto industry or anyone who supports them. He should spend money on things that actually solve the problem: huge grants to build bike lanes and super blocks in cities, national high speed rail, and local rail networks.
He could literal give away eBikes to people who can’t afford them. Manufacturing infrastructure for those already exists and there’s actually enough lithium available to make that happen.
The problem isn’t that work takes time and money, it’s that this is a huge subsidy to the auto industry who are the absolute last people who should ever be involved in any kind of climate solution.
Edit: this isn’t even a new thing. The auto industry sold hydrogen fuel cells as the solution last time and it turned out to just be a giant grift to buy more time to sell cars and take a bunch of money from the government. Why are you letting the same people fool you again?
By my read the money went to state transportation departments, or at least 5 of the $7B.
It sounds like a lot of money, but look at these high speed rail cost estimates. I do visual segments are HUNDREDS of billions of dollars. To re-design city bocks in Metro areas across the country is also quite expensive and ONLY benefits the people of those cities.
If we are going to make a swap to electric cars, which is IMO more plausible than a complete eisenhower-esque infrastructure overhaul, a fast and reliable charging network is a necessity.
Hate Biden if you want for in rental progress, but at least there IS some progress. I can’t imagine it’s easy to move the needle when an entire branch of government (the two houses) will actively vote against their own plans to keep Biden from getting any wins at all.
Dude how tf are we not just putting these at interstate rest stops. It’s a no brainer and they’re clearly going to fumble it
Mass Public Transport > Electric Cars.
Electric car support will take a short while to implement, but fossil fuel reduction will take a long time to show and a long time to be significant.
But Mass Public Transport takes a long while to implement and savings are quick to show, that would be because less people would require personal cars, which means direct drop in fuel usage per person, even more so in big cities which suffer because high population density requires too much parking space that is never enough.
Mass Public Transport could undo plenty of harm caused knowingly by the auto industry. funding, or in this case legitimizing the industry will not really help as electricity itself is still generated from fossil fuels.
The solution should be LESS consumption, not making excuses for the same consumption, or legitimizing more.
There are applications for which mass transit just isn’t enough. I expect to see for example some of the disabled using EVs instead of mass transit. Realistically: we need to minimize driving, and electrify what remains.
Agreed, also public transport should be more accommodating towards the disabled, it’s always such a weird thing that the buses (where i live in) have 0 or 1 “seating spots” for wheelchairs, instead of something modular that is more accomodating.
