Re: Buttigieg: Building 8 EV Charging Stations Under $7.5 Billion Investment for Them Is 'On Track'

On 9/20/2024 8:37 AM, John Smyth wrote:
> On track for what?
> China can build a coal plant in a week and we can't even build a
> charging station.
> 
> Buttigieg: Building 8 EV Charging Stations Under $7.5 Billion Investment
> for Them Is ‘On Track’
> 
> 
> <https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/09/20/buttigieg-building-8-ev-charging-stations-under-7-5-billion-investment-for-them-is-on-track/>
> 
> 'On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Transportation
> Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated that building eight electric vehicle
> charging stations so far under the Inflation Reduction Act’s $7.5
> billion investment in electric vehicle charging stations is “on track.”
> Because most construction will occur in the second half of the decade.
> 
> Co-host Joe Kernen asked, “[O]ur designs 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 — do you — have you
> looked at that and figured out why?”
> 
> Buttigieg responded, “Oh yeah, that’s on track. So, we’re at about
> 190,000 publicly available charging stations in the U.S. 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 ’27, ’28, 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 in 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 even though about 80% of EV charging happens at home,
> the reality is that the new EV 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.”'

Buttfag is just as dumb as any other Biden (Obama) DEI hire.  That 
stupid fool has been caught numerous times embellishing his wikipedia 
page and lying about it.

The BEVs won't be there either.  Market for them is going to shit 
because they are worthless in remote areas and require too much time to 
recharge.

Wait until the Democrats little black pets decide BEV owners are easy 
prey and target the charging stations.