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

On 2024-09-20, Ryan Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
Yea.
For a guy with impressive education credentials he sure doesn't seem to be able to 
perform the job he was appointed to.


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