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janice1999

> the debacle of Biden’s $7.5B rollout of EV chargers that only managed to build a few dozen stations in 3 year

You've fallen for disinformation.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-electric-vehicle-charg...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/dec/05/michael-ru...

You are wrongly claiming that I said spent. The $7.5B is allocated, half the time of the program has elapsed, and a few dozen chargers were built. The program, by any modern standard, was a failure.

From your own article: By early this year, only four states — Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Hawaii — had opened stations funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, The Associated Press reported in March. A Washington Post article published the next day said this amounted to just seven stations.“

So yes, a $7B+ allocation managed to only open a handful of stations in 3 years.

Meanwhile, in a similar 3 year period, China built the Beijing–Shanghai high speed rail line: approx. 3.5 years for ~1,300 km.

Are you really going to claim that the EV charger program has been the successful, rapid deployment necessary to enable a pivot to EVs?

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