By the numbers the scam is almost comical: 384 individual charging ports, $7.5 billion burned, $19.5 million per plug. That’s enough to buy every Tesla owner in America a home charger—twice—yet all taxpayers got was a handful of glorified parking spots.
WHO POCKETED THE CASH? • EVgo, ChargePoint, and Electrify America—all heavy Democratic donors—walked away with the biggest CFI grants. • The Greenlining Institute, NAACP Climate Initiative, and West Harlem Environmental Action were hired as “equity consultants” at $1,200 an hour to ensure 40 % of funds flowed to “underserved communities” per Biden’s 2021 “Justice40” diktat. • BlueGreen Alliance (a coalition of the Sierra Club and the United Steelworkers) lobbied for set-asides that require every single station to use union-only labor—driving costs up another 30 %. • BlackRock’s Climate Finance Partnership skimmed management fees on green bonds floated to finance the program.
EXAMPLES THAT’LL MAKE YOUR BLOOD BOIL • Tucson, AZ: $13.3 million for six ports—each one guarded by a 24/7 security camera because the station is in a high-crime, “environmental-justice” census tract. • Rural Alabama: $8.7 million for four plugs on a county road with daily traffic under 200 cars. Local DOT official admitted in a FOIA’d email, “This location was chosen to hit our Justice40 quota, not utilization projections.” • Los Angeles Metro: $20 million for a 10-port station that still isn’t operational after 18 months because the “community engagement committee” insists on indigenous land acknowledgments every 15 minutes on the video kiosk.
WHO VOTED FOR THIS HEIST? Senate: 19 Republican “yes” votes including Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and Mitt Romney. House: 13 GOP turncoats led by Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, who now sit on the board of green-tech lobbying shops.
BOTTOM LINE Democrats didn’t build an EV network; they built a $19.5 million virtue-signal machine—courtesy of your paycheck.
Thanks Skip
Joe’s “infrastructure” is so green it’s still photosynthesizing—no actual electrons yet.
ReplyDeleteFor $2.8 million apiece, each charger better dispense lattes and free therapy for range-anxious Teslas.
ReplyDeleteAt $2.8 million per plug, they’re the perfect place to recharge… your sense of governmental absurdity.
ReplyDeleteAnother reason not to shop at Wally World.
ReplyDeleteAgency IGs should subpoena the procurement docs: sole-source “green” contracts above $2 million trigger mandatory competitive-bidding waivers; let’s see the paper trail.
ReplyDeleteA qui tam suit could argue the grant violated the False Claims Act—charging stations that never materialize look a lot like billing Uncle Sam for ghost assets.
ReplyDeleteTake a drive on the Interstate. When you come to a rest stop, notice how many truckers are parked there over night. Many aligned along the on/off ramps due to a full parking lot. Now visualize everyone one of those spots with a charging station... This was idiotic from the beginning...
ReplyDeleteIn a just society all the above would find themselves under an aggressive tax audit, stripped of their ill-gotten wealth and put in stocks for the amusement of the taxpayers.
ReplyDeleteIn the Just-US current "legal system" they laugh in their parties about the next scam they can deploy.
What did Carlin say about "Its a Big Club" (worth reading the whole quote).
Back in the early 20th Century when automobiles were becoming popular, fuel was needed. Did the Government supply fuel stations? Oil companies who sold the fuel stepped up and built Gas Stations to sell they're product. I recall seeing a 4 way stop with four different gas stations on the corners. I don't recall any Government (taxpayer) gas stations. Why aren't Power companies or electric vehicle manufactures providing charging stations. They have to be laughing all the way to the bank as we pay them to supply charging stations to a very select group .
ReplyDeleteAnd the worst thing about all of this direct evidence?!!??!?! You can shove it into a progressive liberals face and they wont even acknowledge it and their eyes will glaze over. We keep seeing this grift being verified and does ANYTHING get done about it!?!?!!?
ReplyDeleteWho or what is needed to get someone, ANYONE, perp walked down to the local hoosegow?
A mere pittance compared to the trillions they’ve screwed us for lining their pockets for decades.
ReplyDeleteHit another one out of the park. I'm not wondering why the leftist WSJ missed this one.
ReplyDelete"$7.5 billion"
ReplyDeleteWeeal, heck!
That's just a drop in the bucket these days.