Elon Musk recently proclaimed, with justification, that he has done more for the planet than any Democratic green-energy poseurs who board private jets to travel to climate change conferences where they bash capitalism for ending the world.
Musk has made Tesla’s electric vehicles the hottest-selling cars in the nation. Tesla sold more than 1.3 million cars globally for the first three quarters of 2023, which was more than the company sold all of last year.
Yet President Joe Biden, who wants to strip all Americans of access to cars powered by fossil fuels within the next couple of decades, has done nothing to help the green-energy transportation revolution he wants to promote, if not mandate.
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Politico reported on Tuesday that Biden has yet to build a single EV charging station, despite the then-Democratic-led Congress setting aside $7.5 billion to do that in one of Biden’s inflationary 2021 spending bills.
“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,” Politico reported.
The website reported that Florida was one of the 27 states that have yet to seek bids for new charging stations.
“Consumer demand for electric vehicles is rising in the United States, necessitating six times as many chargers on its roads by the end of the decade, according to federal estimates. But not a single charger funded by the bipartisan infrastructure law has come online and odds are they will not be able to start powering Americans’ vehicles until at least 2024,” Politico continued.
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“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,” Politico added. “Americans consistently say the lack of charging infrastructure is one of the top reasons they won’t buy an electric car.”
The outlet recalled that in 2020, then-candidate Biden pledged to build 500,000 charging stations.
But that won’t be enough. In June, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory projected the U.S. will need 1.2 million public charging stations by 2030 to meet demand, Politico noted.
Republicans, though, see an opening to battle Biden’s mandate for EVs.
Politico noted that former President Donald Trump, under whom America became energy independent for fossil fuels, opposes federal subsidies for EVs and mocks the industry generally.
“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 told a September rally of striking autoworkers in Michigan, Politico reported.
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