Actually, Biden and Tony Evers, if you live in Wisconsin.
More than two years after President Joe Biden pledged to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations throughout the United States only seven are operational across four states.
The Washington Post reported Friday on the sluggish pace the allocated $7.5 billion in infrastructure funds have been put to use.
The bulk of the funds, $5 billion, are to go toward building fast chargers along major interstates - what's being called the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure or NEVI program. ...
What? You expected intelligent, efficient, action from Government? Puh-leeeezzz....
So what does Tony Evers have to do with this mess?
A lot!
...states must submit proposals to the Biden administration for approval, solicit bids for construction and then can award the funds.
So after the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was passed in November 2021, only seven charging stations are operational.
They are in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Hawaii and New York and offer 38 spots for cars to charge. ...
None are in Tony Evers' Wisconsin. There is a reason: under Wisconsin law, only public utilities may sell electricity by the KWh, and the law hasn't been changed. So people who operate these charging stations either must be utilities or the law has to change.
Evers, fully aware of the Biden law TWO YEARS AGO, didn't have his act together for a legislative remedy?
Nah. He's just a schoolteacher and bureaucrat, not an actual Do-er.
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